It was also the first time since Sir Gary Sobers, a West Indies player has scored a century and picked a five-wicket haul in the same Test.
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Indian team head coach Anil Kumble hailed West Indies spinner Roston Chase for his match-saving innings of 137 which helped the hosts draw the second Test against India at Sabina Park.
In losing three wickets for seven runs at the end of the truncated session, the West Indies exactly replicated their predicament at the start of the match when their captain, Jason Holder, won the toss and chose to bat first.
The small crowd erupted in rapturous applause when Chase completed his century and raised his bat in celebration, with nobody clapping louder than Viv Richards.
Samuels was caught by Rahul in the slips off a short ball for a duck and Bravo’s dismissal, gloving a bouncer to slip, was the final action of the day to leave India hoping for favourable weather on day five as they bid to go 2-0 up in the four-Test series.
Overall, Chase is the 4th West Indies to achieve the double of 5 wickets and a hundred in same Test.
He was categorical in saying that, “My aim is to be equally good in both batting and bowling, but I prefer batting more”. The 22-year-old Barbadian has been recalled into the squad following Chandrika’s barren run of form in the two Tests at Antigua and Jamaica, where he managed an aggregate of 53 runs across four innings. Having said that, we wanted to bat once because if you had declared probably at the end of the second day with (a lead of) 160 on the board, you may have batted today. Needing five more wickets to win with West Indies trailing by 193 runs, it seemed India were back into the game.
“Our bowlers tried their best”. I thought we played really good cricket and we were dominant right throughout.
India’s Ravichandran Ashwin bowls against West Indies during day one of their second cricket Test match at the Sabina Park Cricket Ground in Kingston, Jamaica, Saturday, July 30, 2016.
Only 29 overs remained in the last session of the match to be bowled as India looked to make use of the new ball.
The West Indies bowlers stuck to their task well, keeping the India batsmen subdued for long periods.
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India (Ist innings): 500 for 9 decl in 171.1 overs (Lokesh Rahul 158, Shikhar Dhawan 27, Cheteshwar Pujara 46, Virat Kohli 44, Ajinkya Rahane not out 108, Wriddhiman Saha 47, Amit Mishra 21, Umesh Yadav 19, Roston Chase 5 for 121).
