Rohit and Jaiswal slam fifties as India go to lunch unscathed

Lunch India 121 for 0 (Rohit 63*, Jaiswal 52*) vs West Indies

West Indies got here near separating the pair when Jaiswal stabbed at Alzarri Joseph, however a thick outdoors edge burst by the arms of debutant Kirk McKenzie at gully within the sixth over. Jaiswal was on 4 at that time. Then, when he was on 52, within the final over earlier than lunch, Jason Holder drew one other outdoors edge, however Alick Athanaze dropped it, this time at first slip.

Rohit, in the meantime, eased himself in with quite a lot of pulls. The pitch afforded him a lot time that he might even short-arm jab a large supply from Joseph, which probably completed wider than a set of stumps outdoors off, to deep sq. leg. It was fairly becoming that Rohit then introduced up his half-century with a pulled six off Roach.

Rohit wanted 72 balls to get to the landmark, whereas Jaiswal received there off simply 49 balls.

This meant West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite needed to flip to Jomel Warrican, the left-arm fingerspinner, inside the first ten overs. Rohit ventured out of his crease in Warrican’s opening over and shovelled him previous mid-on earlier than Jaiswal swept him away previous backward sq. leg. The fielder had been whisked in from the deep simply earlier than this ball to save lots of a single, however Jaiswal neatly manipulated the sphere.

Rohit then cranked up the tempo even additional when he planted his entrance leg and crunched Roach over extra-cover for 4 extra. Brathwaite responded by bringing Holder into the assault because the fifth bowler. Holder operated with much more self-discipline than the opposite seamers, however there was no pleasure but for West Indies in what was the a hundredth Test match between the 2 groups.