Though VVS has won the MOM for his 176 n.o, my Man of the Match is Umesh Yadav who has bowled excellent deceptive spells, mostly, on a fuller length and had taken 7 wickets in this test match. Each of the wickets were very crucial from the overall result perspective. Fuller length deliveries accounted for clean bowling the W.Indies batsmen.
I must confess that I was pretty unsatisfied with the way Indians bowled during the 2nd innings. May be, the pitch has not offered much, but had this been against Australia, England or for that matter South Africa, who knows, Indians would have lost this match, after conceding the lead. We have very defensive bowler in Ojha and Ashwin looked raw in the 2nd innings. It will be interesting to see if the opposition has already understood Ashwin's technique lest, he will soon be caught on the wrong footing like Ajantha Mendis of SriLanka.
The day, belonged to W.Indies, for believing in themselves. ChanderPaul, Edwards, Bravo and Samuels have immensely contributing though to a loosing cause. With 401/4 in the 110th over, W.Indies were on the way to clear the deficit of 77 runs, but that was not to be. It should be noted that W.Indies gave up on day 3 of the 1st match when they were clearly ahead of the Delhi Test. Had W.Indies taken a lead in this match, definitely, there would be some alarm bell for MSD. He has thus escaped the notification.
Now India travel to Mumbai for the 3rd test match starting on 22nd Nov. The team will be selected for the 3rd test match. I feel that Indians need to test Kohli before the Aussies series and most likely Yuvaraj will get the axe, after his poor show in both the test matches.
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