“Glad” with how the opening day went, hosts West Indies hope to utilise the brand new ball and get early breakthroughs on Friday, mentioned assistant coach Kenny Benjamin.
Opting to bowl, the hosts had an under-par morning session however staged a fightback. They struck 4 occasions, limiting India to 288/4 on Thursday.
“We had been a bit of bit dissatisfied that we did not choose up a wicket or two until lunch however then we did effectively to get 4 wickets,” Benjamin mentioned after the tip of day’s play on Thursday.
“Hopefully, tomorrow we can have an opportunity to begin with the brand new ball if we do, we hope to get a few breakthroughs and get ourselves again into the sport,” he added.
Rohit Sharma (80) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (57) gave India an ideal begin as they shared a 139-run stand however the runs dried up within the afternoon as West Indies removed the 2 openers, Shubman Gill (10) and vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane (8).
Nonetheless, an unbeaten 106-run stand between Virat Kohli (87 not out) and Ravindra Jadeja (36 not out) put India again on observe.
“Kudos to Virat and Jadeja, they performed very effectively, they’re skilled. Virat is a really particular participant and the 2 took that session away from us, however general it was a satisfying day.”
Kohli, enjoying his five hundredth Check, is 13 runs shy of his first hundred in an abroad Check since December 2018.
“If he’s threatening (to attain a century) then he should work for it, we is not going to hand it to him,” Benjamin mentioned.
West Indies bowled with a plan and objective within the second session and the previous pacer, who performed 92 Assessments and 33 ODIs between 1992-1998, hopes the bowlers can assist the house aspect stage a comeback by executing their plans equally within the opening session on Friday.
“We have now our plans for every batter, we hope our bowlers can keep on with these plans, be affected person. With Kohli and Jadeja, they won’t make it simple for us so we now have to work actually exhausting, so we hope bowlers can execute,” Benjamin mentioned.
