With the pitch not offering much on the day, the spin twins, Ravichandran Ashwin and Amit Mishra, weren’t as effective.
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Chase, who took 5-121 with his offspin in India’s first innings, is just the fourth West Indies player to score a century and take five wickets in the same test, and the first to do so in 50 years.
The rearguard action had statisticians searching the record books, revealing it to be the first time West Indies batsmen at five, six, seven and eight had scored half-centuries in the same innings.
Chase joined three illustrious West Indies names – Sir Garfiled Sobers, Collie Smith and Dennis Atkinson – on the list of Caribbean players, who achieved the feat in the past.
They were propelled by Chase who was unbeaten at the break on a positive 70 while Blackwood started the early fightback with an aggressive 63.
Dowrich played a marvellous innings of 74 runs with six boundaries and a six and gave Chase excellent support from the other end.
Only 29 overs remained in the last session of the match as India looked to make use of the new ball. In doing so, the Indian vice-captain completed his hundred off 231 balls.
In walked Holder, and, along with Chase, ensured that India were batted out of a victory.
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Play is scheduled to resume 30 minutes early on Tuesday at 9.30 AM local time (1430GMT), but the forecast is for more rain, with a tropical wave heading towards the island.
Two overs later, the Bengal pacer broke the West Indies’ batting order, as Bravo couldn’t cope with a short delivery again.
On day three, Ajinkya Rahane scored 108*, his 7th Test hundred, as India finished at 500/9d and rain washed out the final session thereafter. Starting the second innings with 304 runs behind, the hosts lost four of their wickets for just.
He helped Rahul add 69 runs for the third wicket going into the final session of the day when the opener’s innings ended in somewhat controversial circumstances as lengthy deliberation involving the television umpire was needed before he was ruled caught by wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich off fast bowler Shannon Gabriel. This was where West Indies’ discipline paid off. Wickets were hard to come by. But their partnership was broken by R Aswhwin when he had Blackwook caught at forward short leg. The breakthrough did not exactly open the floodgates as the Indian team would have hoped for but still Virat Kohli was not giving up hope.
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“It’s all nice to now sit and say when we should have declared and what if, but I thought we played really good cricket, we were dominant right throughout and today, you know the change in momentum happened and credit to the West Indian batsmen”, he said. The off-spinner struck in two successive balls to remove Mishra and incoming batsman Mohammad Shami.
