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- Updated: August 3, 2016
West Indies 196 and 319 for 6 (Chase 112*, Holder 21*, Shami 2-63) lead India 500 for 9 decl. by 15 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
There is a lot to be said of Roston Chase. He’s languid at the crease. He plays late and close to his body. He wasn’t perturbed by a tough situation. And his timing stood out. Two days short of 50 years and six days after the 80th birthday of the last man to do so, he became the first West Indian to combine a hundred and a five-for in the same Test.
Of course, for that to happen Chase had to hit the ball sweetly too. He looked correct when he defended, graceful when he attacked and bloody determined all through. Sir Garry Sobers wouldn’t have minded ceding his record to an innings like that. Not to a fellow Bajan. And certainly not when it helped West Indies into the lead in a Test they seemed almost certain to lose.
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