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| May 22, 2002 | Wednesday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 8,1423 |
India face uphill battle for victory in final Test
KINGSTON (Jamaica), May 21: Left-arm paceman Pedro Collins struck a double blow as India, chasing 408 to win the fifth Test and the series, were reduced to 57 for two by lunch on the fourth day Tuesday.
Barbadian Collins first had opener Wasim Jaffer (7) flicking straight to Wavell Hinds at forward short-leg and then had Shiv Sundar Das adjudged lbw by umpire Russell Tiffin for 10.
But television replays suggested Das might have been unlucky as the ball had pitched outside leg-stump.
India would set a new world record if they manage to get 408, beating their own mark of 406 for four set while chasing 403 against West Indies in Port-of-Spain in 1975-76.
Rahul Dravid was at the crease on 26 with Sachin Tendulkar on seven.
India had earlier dismissed West Indies for 197 in their second innings with Zaheer Khan grabbing four wickets and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh adding three for 42.
The home side resumed on 165 for seven but lost Shivnarine Chanderpaul (59) when Zaheer took a sharp return catch off his own bowling.
Left-hander Chanderpaul finished with 562 runs in the series at an astonishing average of 140.5. Only captain Carl Hooper has scored more runs this series with 579, which includes a career-best 233 in the first drawn Test at Georgetown.
Singh got Adam Sanford (5) caught at mid-wicket by captain Saurav Ganguly and then bowled Collins for a 125-minute 24.
Das started India’s reply driving paceman Mervyn Dillon for two straight fours.
Dravid drove Collins for three fours through the off side and then pulled him to mid-wicket.
On Monday, India grabbed five quick wickets, including Brian Lara for a breezy 35, before Chanderpaul put on 36 for the sixth wicket with wicket-keeper Ridley Jacobs (16).
Javagal Srinath started India’s rally with a fiery opening spell, having first-innings centurion Wavell Hinds (6) caught by Laxman at second slip and fellow opener Chris Gayle (15) caught by Ganguly in the gully.
Zaheer Khan then removed three middle-order batsmen .He forced Sarwan (12) to drive to cover where Das took a catch diving forward, and also had Hooper edging to Ratra for six before getting the prize scalp of Lara with a ball that crept through his defence and hit the stumps.
He could have taken a fourth wicket when Jacobs, on one, edged to first slip but Dravid dropped a chest-high sitter.
The left-hander was eventually removed for 16, flicking Harbhajan straight to substitute Dinesh Mongia at forward short-leg. Nehra followed up by clean bowling Dillon for four.
Dillon earlier took a Test-best five for 71 as India lost their last six wickets for 44 runs despite a fighting, unbeaten 65 by Vangipurappu Laxman, who has now scored four half-centuries and a hundred this series.
Dillon’s previous best, his only other five-wicket haul, came at the cost of 111 runs against Pakistan at Karachi in 1997.
India won the second Test in Trinidad by 37 runs before West Indies hit back with a 10-wicket win in Barbados to level the series 1-1.
The Indians have not won a Test series in the Caribbean for more than 30 years.
Scoreboard
WEST INDIES (1st Innings) 422 (W.W. Hinds 113, C.H. Gayle 68, R.R. Sarwan 65, R.D. Jacobs 59; Harbhajan Singh 5-138).
INDIA (1st Innings):
S.S. Das lbw b Cuffy 33
Wasim Jaffer c Jacobs b Dillon 0
R.S. Dravid lbw b Dillon 5
S.R. Tendulkar b Sanford 41
S.C. Ganguly c Jacobs b Dillon 36
V.V.S. Laxman not out 65
A. Ratra c Hinds b Dillon 3
Harbhajan Singh c Hinds b Dillon 4
Zaheer Khan c Lara b Cuffy 6
J. Srinath c Gayle b Collins 2
A. Nehra run out 0
EXTRAS (LB-6, NB-11) 17
TOTAL (all out in 75 overs) 212
FALL OF WKTS: 1-5, 2-15, 3-84, 4-86, 5-168, 6-178, 7-184, 8-194, 9-197.
BOWLING: Dillon 24-4-71-5 (2nb); Cuffy 22-5-49-2 (4nb); Collins 19-2-54-1 (5nb); Sanford 9-1-27-1; Hooper 1-0-5-0.
WEST INDIES (2nd Innings, overnight 165-7):
C.H. Gayle c Ganguly b Srinath 15
W.W. Hinds c Laxman b Srinath 6
R.R. Sarwan c Das b Zaheer 12
B.C. Lara b Zaheer 35
C.L. Hooper c Ratra b Zaheer 6
S. Chanderpaul c and b Zaheer 59
R.D. Jacobs c sub b Harbhajan 16
M. Dillon b Nehra 4
P.T. Collins b Harbhajan 24
A. Sanford c Ganguly b Harbhajan 5
C.E. Cuffy not out 3
EXTRAS (B-4, NB-8) 12
TOTAL (all out, 62.2 overs) 197
FALL OF WKTS: 1-17, 2-24, 3-38, 4-60, 5-81, 6-117, 7-122, 8-170, 9-187.
BOWLING: Srinath 16-2-49-2; Nehra 9-2-23-1; Zaheer Khan 20-2-79-4 (8nb); Harbhajan Singh 17.2-2-42-3.
INDIA (2nd Innings):
S.S. Das lbw b Collins 10
Wasim Jaffer c Hinds b Collins 7
R.S. Dravid not out 26
S.R. Tendulkar not out 7
EXTRAS (B-1, LB-1, NB-5) 7
TOTAL (for two wkts, 21 overs) 57
FALL OF WKTS: 1-19, 2-25.
BOWLING (to-date): Dillon 8-3-17-0; Cuffy 7-3-8-0; Collins 5-1-23-2 (3nb); Sanford 1-0-7-0 (2nb).—Reuters
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