IND vs Wi / India lead by 352 runs at the end of the second day - West Indies - 86/1

IND vs WI: India has strengthened its hold in the second Test against the West Indies. Virat Kohli, playing his 500th international match, scored 121 runs, with the help of his century, Team India scored a big score of 438 runs in the first innings. West Indies were 86 for one in their first innings at the end of the day's play at Port of Spain in Trinidad on Friday. The team is still 352 runs behind India's score. Captain Kaig Brathwaite from the team scored 37 and Kirk McKenzie returned not out after scoring 14 runs. Tejnarine Chanderpaul was dismissed after scoring 33 runs, Ravindra Jadeja sent him to the pavilion.

West Indies wickets fell like this in the first innings...

1st: Tejnarine Chanderpaul - Fuller length ball from Ravindra Jadeja, Chanderpaul plays the cross, the ball goes to Ravichandran Ashwin standing at point position, which is caught by Ashwin diving to his left.

Understand the second day's game session-by-session in 3 points...

Session-1: India lost 2 wickets in scoring 85 runs. Both the teams performed mixed in the opening session. Team India lost two wickets in scoring 85 runs. After the drinks break, Virat Kohli was dismissed for 121 and Ravindra Jadeja for 61. Till lunch, Team India's score was 373/6.

Session-2: Caribbean bowlers dominated The second session saw the dominance of Caribbean bowlers. In this session, Team India lost its last four wickets in scoring 65 runs. However, before being all out, the innings of Ishaan Kishan (25 runs) and Ravichandran Ashwin (56 runs) had taken the team's score beyond 400 runs.

Session-3: Openers of Windies troubled Indian bowlers In reply to 438 runs in the last session, West Indies team's openers made Indian bowlers work hard. The pair of Kaig Brathwaite and Tejnarine Chanderpaul shared a 71-run partnership. Ravindra Jadeja broke this partnership. The hosts lost one wicket in this session to score 86 runs.

Team India lost 6 wickets in scoring 150 runs

Virat's 29th Test century and half-centuries from Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (57 runs), captain Rohit Sharma (80 runs), Ravindra Jadeja (61 runs) and Ravichandran Ashwin (56 runs) helped the Indian team cross the 400-run mark.

Kohli equals Bradman

Virat Kohli has equaled Australia's legendary batsman Don Bradman in terms of Test centuries. Bradman also scored only 29 centuries. A total of 15 batsmen in the world have scored more than 29 centuries. Sachin Tendulkar is at number one with 51 Test centuries.

Apart from Sachin among Indian batsmen, only Rahul Dravid (36 centuries) and Sunil Gavaskar (34 centuries) have scored more centuries than Kohli.

Virat has so far scored 76 centuries in international cricket. Apart from 29 Test centuries, he has scored 46 ODIs and 1 century in T20 Internationals. Only Sachin Tendulkar (100 centuries) has scored more centuries than Virat in international cricket.

Test century abroad came after 55 months

Virat has scored a test century abroad after 55 months. His last Test hundred before this on overseas soil came against Australia in Perth in December 2018.

159-run partnership between Kohli-Jadeja

Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja shared a 159-run partnership on 286 balls for the fifth wicket. Virat 121 and Jadeja got out after scoring 61 runs.

This is how India's wickets fell in the first innings

First: Yashasvi Jaiswal- Yashasvi wanted to drive the wide length ball from Jason Holder, but his body was away from the line of the ball. The ball took the outside edge of the bat and went into the hands of Kirk McKenzie standing at gully position.

Second: Shubman Gill- Kemar Roach bowled a good length ball outside off stump. The ball touched the edge of Shubman Gill's bat and reached wicketkeeper Joshua da Silva.

3rd: Rohit Sharma- Rohit Sharma gets bowled in an attempt to stop a good length ball at middle stump. He became the first victim of Jomel Warrican.

Fourth: Ajinkya Rahane - Shannon Gabriel bowled a short pitched ball outside the off stump. Ajinkya Rahane went to play the shot on the backfoot, but the ball got buried and Rahane got bowled.

Fifth: Virat Kohli wanted to take a single by playing Warrican's ball in the direction of square leg, when Alzarri Joseph, standing at short leg, picked up the ball and hit the non-striking end with a direct throw, before Kohli could reach the crease, the ball hit the stumps.

Sixth: Ravindra Jadeja - wanted to drive the ball outside off stump, but the ball took the outside edge of the bat and went to the wicketkeeper da Silva's gloves.

Seventh: Ishaan Kishan - wanted to play Jason Holder's short length ball in front, the ball touched the edge of the bat and went to wicketkeeper da Silva, who was caught by Joshua who made no mistake.

Eighth: Jaydev Unadkat - wanted to hit Warrican's flighted ball, but missed and wicketkeeper Da Silva took advantage of the opportunity to stump him.

Ninth: Mohammed Siraj - tries to sweep the fuller length ball from Warrican, plays the cross, misses and the ball hits the pad. Host team captain Braithwaite took DRS after field umpire gave notout on appeal, on which Siraj was declared out.

Tenth: Ravichandran Ashwin - Kemar Roach's good length slower ball got bowled.

First day's play

The first day of the second Test of India-West Indies was named after the Indian batsmen. By the end of this day's play, Team India scored 288 runs for four wickets. Kohli returned unbeaten on 87 and Jadeja on 36.

The second match of the Test series is being played between India and West Indies. This is also the 100th Test between the two teams. Kohli, playing his 500th international match, returned not out after scoring 87 runs. He became the 5th batsman to score the most runs in international cricket. He left behind Jacques Kallis.

The first day of the India-West Indies 100th Test was full of excitement. On this day, the attractive batting of veteran batsmen like Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli was seen from Team India, while Caribbean bowlers like Warrican and Gabriel scattered the stumps of Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane. Along with this, Virat Kohli, playing his 500th international match, made an amazing cover drive.