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India beat WI by 37 runs
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Indian paceman Zaheer Khan dismissed Cameron Cuffy to peg the West Indies and subsequently enabled India to register a sensational 37 runs victory as the hosts were dismissed for 275 on the final day of the second Test.
April 23, 2002 - 1905 GMT
WI struggle to win v India
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Sensing a relatively comfortable victory over India with a sound 210 on the board for the loss of four wickets, the West Indies could add just 53 runs and lost four more wickets off 23 overs to struggle at 263 for the loss of eight wickets at tea on the fifth and final day of the second Test on Tuesday.
In the 123 minutes session between the lunch and tea interval, Chris Gayle (52), Junior Murray (1), Mervyn Dillon (0) and Marlon Black (3) were the significant dismissals from the home side.
Javagal Srinath dismissed two more batsmen to leave his bowling figures at 29-7-65-3. Zaheer Khan took one wicket for 55 runs.
With Shivnarine Chanderpaul batting on 60 and Adam Sanford playing on 1, the Caribbeans require another 50 runs to win with two wickets remaining.
DAY
FIVE
April 23, 2002 - 1635 GMT
Paceman Nehra strikes to leave Test in balance
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Indian paceman Ashish Nehra dismissed Brian Lara and Carl Hooper early on Tuesday to peg the West Indies to 210 for four by lunch on the final day of the second Test.
But the home side, chasing 313 for victory, still had a good chance with Shivnarine Chanderpaul on 26 and Chris Gayle, who retired hurt on Monday with cramps in his left wrist, on 40.
Lara, overnight 40 in West Indies's 131 for two, added just seven runs before Nehra had him caught at first slip by Rahul Dravid when he fished outside the off-stump to an away swinger.
Captain Carl Hooper, who scored his maiden Test double-century in the drawn first Test at Georgetown, was again looking good as he pulled left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan to the mid-wicket fence and lofted off-spinner Harbhajan
Singh over mid-on for another boundary.
Hooper was just looking to cut loose when Nehra, who had first-spell figures of 7-2-19-2, had him pulling a short ball straight into the hands of Shiv Sundar Das at mid-wicket.
West Indies had stumbled to 164 for four but the last recognised pair of Chanderpaul, who had scored a career-best 140 at Georgetown, and Gayle steadied the innings in an unbeaten 46-run stand.
Chanderpaul edged Nehra just wide of second slip for his first boundary and drove Harbhajan through the covers for four more.
India are seeking their first Test win in the Caribbean since the 1975-76 season, while West Indies are looking to bounce back from two straight Test series losses.
DAY
FOUR
April 22, 2002 - 2155 GMT
WI on course of victory v India
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: West Indies requiring another 182 runs to win, were comfortably placed at 131 for the loss of two wickets when bad light stopped play almost 30 minutes ahead of schedule time on the fourth day of the second Test against India at the Queen's Park Oval here on Monday.
Master-blaster Brian Lara was playing on a patient 40 and was helped by skipper Carl Hooper who was batting on one. Ramnaresh Sarwan was the last man out on the fourth evening. He was dismissed by Harbhajan Singh for 41 as Dravid took a straight catch in the slips. Lara and Sarwan added 98 runs for the second wicket.
Earlier, India were dismissed out for 312, setting a victory target of 313 runs for the hosts.
April 22, 2002 - 1700 GMT
WI 62-1 v India
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Chasing a victory target of 313 West Indies were 62 for the loss of one wicket in their second innings against India at tea on the fourth day of the second Test at the Queen's Park Oval on Monday.
Stuart Williams was the only man out before tea interval. He scored 13 runs and was dismissed by Javagal Srinath through a slip position catch held by Indian vice captain Rahul Dravid.
Chris Gayle (21) and Ramnaresh Sarwan (17) were the batsmen who remained unbeaten when the players went off the field for a cup of tea.
April 22, 2002 - 1700 GMT
India 218 all out v West Indies
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: India were all out for 218 in their second innings, a lead of 312, on the fourth day of the second Test against West Indies at the Queen's Park Oval on Monday.
Scores: India 339 and 218. West Indies 245.
April 22, 2002 - 1630 GMT
India collapse despite fighting knock by Ganguly
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: West Indies grabbed five quick wickets on the fourth morning of the second Test as India slipped from 165 for four to 218 for nine in their second innings despite a fighting unbeaten 75 by captain Sourav Ganguly.
Ganguly shared in a 149-run stand for the fifth wicket with Vangipurappu Laxman (74) as India, leading by 312 runs, collapsed on a slowing wicket.
India had scored 339 in their first innings before bowling out the West Indies for a modest 245.
Fast bowler Mervyn Dillon struck almost immediately after taking the second new ball as he had Laxman, overnight 60, dragging a widish delivery on to his stumps.
Debutant wicketkeeper Ajay Ratra, who had scored a duck in the first innings, was trapped lbw for two to a delivery from Cameron Cuffy that nipped in after pitching outside off.
Harbhajan Singh made his way back to the pavilion next ball, edging a Cuffy outswinger straight to Chris Gayle at first slip. Cuffy was on a hat-trick but Javagal Srinath negotiated the ball with ease.
However, he was out for two in the next over, steering Dillon to third slip where Stuart Williams took a brilliant two-handed catch diving to his right.
Zaheer Khan was run out at the stoke of lunch after a misunderstanding with Ganguly over a sharp single to mid-off.
Ganguly, under pressure to score more consistently overseas, had earlier raised his 50, glancing pace bowler Adam Sanford to the fine-leg fence for four, before rain held up play for 35 minutes with just four balls being bowled.
India are seeking their first Test win in the Caribbean since the 1975-76 season, while West Indies are looking to bounce back from two straight Test series losses.
DAY
TWO
April 20, 2002 - 2210 GMT
WI reach 197-7 v India
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: West Indies scored 197 for the loss of seven wickets in their first innings at the draw of stumps on the second day of the second Test against India on Saturday.
India had scored 339 in their first innings which also included Sachin tendulkar's 29th Test hundred.
April 20, 2002 - 1910 GMT
WI 80-2 v India
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: West Indies had scored 80 runs for the loss of two wickets at the tea interval while making a reply to India's first innings total of 339 on the second day of the second Test on Saturday.
April 20, 2002 - 1630 GMT
Windies hit
back as Tendulkar fails to forge on
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: West Indies' pace bowlers
hit back against India on Saturday by taking four
early wickets including that of Sachin Tendulkar
on the second morning of the second Test.
Tendulkar, 113 overnight after equalling
Australian Don Bradman's 29 Test centuries, added
just four more but Vangipurappu Laxman was
undefeated on 61 as India, resuming on 262 for
four, reached 331 for eight at lunch.
Tendulkar looked in all sorts of trouble as pace
bowler Cameron Cuffy attacked him outside his off
stump. He survived a close leg-before appeal when
offering no shot to a delivery that came back and
was out to Cuffy's next ball which nipped in
sharply after pitching outside off.
The 28-year-old from Bombay struck 14 boundaries,
all on day one, and faced 260 balls. Only former
Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar, with 34 centuries
in 125 Tests, has scored more Test centuries.
Wickets started to tumble at the other end,
leaving Laxman to wage a lonely battle.
He drove quick bowler Mervyn Dillon through the
covers and cut Cuffy backward of point for a four
to add to his overnight 25.
Laxman brought up his 50, off 106 balls, by
pulling paceman Adam Sanford to the mid-wicket
fence for the eighth of his nine fours. Ajay Ratra
fell for a debut duck when he fished outside the
off-stump to Cuffy and edged to wicketkeeper
Junior Murray.
Harbhajan Singh, who missed the first Test with a
pulled shoulder muscle, also went for nought when
he hooked Sanford straight to Cuffy at fine leg.
Sanford, warned by umpire Darryl Harper for
running on the pitch, picked up his third wicket
of the innings by uprooting Zaheer Khan's (5)
middle stump when the batsman played across the
line.
Just when it seemed Laxman would run out of
partners, Javagal Srinath chipped in with some
useful runs to reach the interval on 18 not out.
They shared in 33-run stand for the ninth wicket
with Srinath picking up three boundaries, all
through the slips.
Pace bowler Marlon Black, taken to hospital on
Saturday with severe dehydration, bowled only two
overs in the first session. India have not won a
Test series outside south Asia since beating
England over 16 years ago, while West Indies are
looking to bounce back from two straight Test
series losses.
DAY
ONE
April 19, 2002 - 2155 GMT
India recover to post 262-4
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: India staged a
remarkable recovery to score 262 for the loss of
four wickets when the stumps were drawn on the
opening day of the second Test at the Queen's Park
Oval here on Friday.
April 19, 2002 - 1855 GMT
India recover against WI
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: India staged a wonderful recovery to post 156 for the loss of their openers when the stumps were drawn at tea in the second Test at the Queen's Park Oval here on Friday.
Vice captain Rahul Dravid (64) and batting supreme, Sachin Tendulkar (63) added 118 runs for the unfinished third wicket stand.
Earlier, West Indies fast bowlers Mervyn Dillon and Adam Sanford shared two early wickets to put India under pressure.
April 19, 2002 - 1605 GMT
West Indies strike two early blows
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: West Indies fast bowlers Mervyn Dillon and Adam Sanford took a wicket each as India reached 70 for two at lunch on the first day of the second test on Friday.
Openers Shiv Sundar Das and Sanjay Bangar failed to survive on a well-grassed track as the four-pronged West Indies pace attack -- Dillon, Cameron Cuffy, Sanford and Marlon Black -- justified captain Carl Hooper's decision to bowl first with fiery opening spells.
Rahul Dravid was unbeaten on 25 at the interval, with Sachin Tendulkar on 20. Das steered Cuffy to the third man fence for his lone boundary before he was trapped lbw for 10 by Dillon with a delivery that nipped in sharply after pitching outside off stump.
Bangar, promoted as opener in place of wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta who was left out in favour of debutant Ajay Ratra, drove Dillon for a straight four. But he perished for nine, playing away from his body to a widish delivery
from Sanford.
Wicketkeeper Junior Murray held on to a simple catch as India slumped to 38 for two. Dravid, promoted to number three after cracking an unbeaten 144 in the first test at Georgetown struck five fours.
He got off the mark by cutting Cuffy to the third man fence for four and then flicked Sanford to the square-leg boundary. The 29-year-old then drove Sanford through the covers and cut a rising delivery from Black backward of
point for four more.
Tendulkar, looking to equal legendary Australian Don Bradman's 29 test centuries, struggled to 20, including four boundaries. But he was fortunate to survive on six when he got a leading edge to Sanford and the ball spooned
up in the air and fell just short of Cuffy at wide mid-off.
The 28-year-old survived a huge appeal for caught behind later in the same over when he played and missed at a Sanford out-swinger. Tendulkar hit back, though, driving Sanford through the covers for fours and flicking him to the mid-wicket fence for four more off the next ball.
Indian captain Saurav Ganguly decided to leave out leg-spinner Anil Kumble, India's most successful current bowler with 318 wickets in 69 tests, going in with three seamers -- Javagal Srinath, Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra --
and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh.
Harbhajan, nicknamed "turbanator" after grabbing 32 wickets to lead India to a stunning 2-1 home test series win over Australia last year, had missed the first test due to a pulled shoulder muscle.
West Indies made just one change, bringing in Black for leg-spinner Mahendra Nagamootoo, who was ruled out with a niggling hamstring injury. India have not won a test series outside south Asia since beating England in 1985-86,
while West Indies are looking to bounce back from two straight test series losses.
April 19, 2002 - 1415 GMT
India leave out Kumble as West Indies opt to field
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: India left out leg-spinner Anil Kumble as West Indies captain Carl Hooper won the toss and elected to field first in the second test on Friday.
India go into the match with three genuine seamers, Javagal Srinath, Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra, and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who missed the first match of the series with a shoulder injury.
Wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta was replaced by Ajay Ratra, who makes his test debut. Off-spinner Sarandeep Singh was also left out.
West Indies leg-spinner Mahendra Nagamootoo was ruled out with a niggling hamstring injury, and the hosts go into the game with a four-pronged pace attack of Mervyn Dillon, Cameron Cuffy, Adam Sanford and Marlon Black.
The first test at Georgetown ended in a draw.
Teams:
India - Sourav Ganguly (captain), Sanjay Bangar, Shiv Sundar Das, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Vangipurappu Laxman, Ajay Ratra, Javagal Srinath, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra.
West Indies - Carl Hooper (captain), Chris Gayle, Stuart Williams, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Junior Murray, Mervyn Dillon, Cameron Cuffy, Marlon Black, Adam
Sanford.
Umpires: Asoka de Silva (Sri Lanka), Darryl Harper (Australia)
Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)
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