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- Updated: August 4, 2016
India’s coach Anil Kumble has praised the fight shown by West Indies’ batsmen in salvaging a draw in the Sabina Park Test. India had sliced through the top order on the fourth morning before rain wiped out play in the final two sessions of the day, after which West Indies’ lower-middle order resisted through the whole of day five.
“The time lost was very crucial for us, because we were in great momentum and the conditions were such that it could have been different if we had bowled yesterday,” Kumble said. “There was loss of play, more than 100 overs in this Test match. But all those factors mattered. In the end, credit to the West Indian batsmen, how they batted today and their application as well.”
The star of West Indies’ unlikely escape was Roston Chase, the Barbados allrounder who followed up his first-innings five-for with an unbeaten final-day century. “Creditable for someone …
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