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- Updated: August 12, 2016
West Indies 192 for 3 (Samuels 39*, Blackwood 20*) trail India 353 by 159 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Two early wickets, and sharp turn and bounce created excitement on the first session of the fourth day, but West Indies a session closer to safety. Two wickets fell, both overnight batsmen, for 87 runs in the session extended by 15 minutes to provide extra time after rain washed out the third day’s play. With five sessions to go, West Indies were now 159 behind with seven first-innings wickets in hand.
With the first wicket of this innings coming through a run-out, there was a time when Indian bowlers had gone 529 legal deliveries without taking a wicket. There was a question mark against the legality of the 530th, which produced Darren Bravo’s wicket. The previous wicket, that of Shane Dowrich on the last day the last Test, had been dubious too.
There was nothing dubious about the plan, though. There was a short …
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