India vs West Indies Highlights, 1st Test Day 2: IND in commanding position after Rahul, Jurel, Jadeja tons; lead by 286
India vs West Indies Highlights, 1st Test Day 2: KL Rahul (100), Dhruv Jurel (125) and Ravindra Jadeja (104*) got tons as India reached 448/5 at Stumps on Day 2, and lead by 286 runs.
- 11:15 AM IST, Oct 3STUMPS
- 11:10 AM IST, Oct 3IND - 439/5 (126), lead by 278 runs
- 11:07 AM IST, Oct 3Hundred for Jadeja!
- 10:58 AM IST, Oct 3OUT! Jurel departs!
- 10:53 AM IST, Oct 3Jurel takes on Warrican!
- 10:46 AM IST, Oct 34-0-4! Jurel accelerates!
- 10:33 AM IST, Oct 3Jurel gets his ton!
- 10:18 AM IST, Oct 3150 partnership completed!
- 10:11 AM IST, Oct 3IND's lead crosses 200
- 10:04 AM IST, Oct 3FOUR! GOOD SHOT!
- 9:52 AM IST, Oct 3Maiden over for Chase
- 9:34 AM IST, Oct 3IND - 337/4 (102), lead by 178 runs
- 9:25 AM IST, Oct 3Windies finding movement but the speeds are down
- 9:08 AM IST, Oct 3Second new ball finally taken
- 9:05 AM IST, Oct 3Back for the evening session
- 8:43 AM IST, Oct 3TEA CALLED, India's lead at 164
- 8:36 AM IST, Oct 3Jadeja reaches 50 – his seventh in last nine innings
- 8:21 AM IST, Oct 3Lead up to 150
- 8:04 AM IST, Oct 3300 up and Jurel looking sensational
- 7:56 AM IST, Oct 3Fifty for Dhruv Jurel!
- 7:43 AM IST, Oct 3Drinks, India's lead up to 112
- 7:30 AM IST, Oct 380 overs through, but Seales keeps the old ball
- 7:15 AM IST, Oct 3Jurel brings up 100-run lead with towering six
- 7:01 AM IST, Oct 3And six more! Carbon copy from Jadeja
- 6:56 AM IST, Oct 3Jadeja joins in! Sixes in consecutive overs
- 6:55 AM IST, Oct 3Jurel rocks back and picks up 6
- 6:45 AM IST, Oct 3Soft dismissal! Rahul chips one right to cover
- 6:39 AM IST, Oct 3Second new ball, Jurel's batting key in post-lunch session
- 6:15 AM IST, Oct 3Rahul's two home centuries the longest an Indian player has had to wait
- 6:05 AM IST, Oct 3218/3 at lunch, lead of 56
- 5:55 AM IST, Oct 3Century for KL Rahul!
- 5:42 AM IST, Oct 3Rahul marching towards century
- 5:28 AM IST, Oct 3Gill is out trying a reverse sweep!
- 5:23 AM IST, Oct 3Fifty for Shubman Gill!
- 5:06 AM IST, Oct 3Gill onto 44*, Rahul 76*, at drinks
- 4:56 AM IST, Oct 3India take the lead!
- 4:41 AM IST, Oct 3Imperious from Gill! 150 up
- 4:38 AM IST, Oct 3Another nice cut shot for 4 from Rahul
- 4:27 AM IST, Oct 3Fifty partnership up for the third wicket
- 4:19 AM IST, Oct 3KL Rahul battling a hamstring strain
- 4:09 AM IST, Oct 3Another boundary as an errant one sprays down leg side!
- 4:06 AM IST, Oct 3Here we go on Day 2!
- 3:50 AM IST, Oct 3WI's desire for the intangibles as committee begins task of revitalising the sport
- 3:30 AM IST, Oct 3Half an hour to start of play
- 3:20 AM IST, Oct 3When will spin become a factor?
- 3:10 AM IST, Oct 3Siraj reflects on missing first Test five-fer at home
- 2:50 AM IST, Oct 3Small chance of rain in Ahmedabad
- 2:40 AM IST, Oct 341 runs to get, then building from scratch with batting yet to come
- 2:30 AM IST, Oct 3KL Rahul already on 53*, wants a big one
- 2:10 AM IST, Oct 3Shubman Gill comes in and steadies the ship
- 2:00 AM IST, Oct 3Sai Sudharsan falls cheaply on home debut
- 1:50 AM IST, Oct 368-run opening stand set the tone
- 1:30 AM IST, Oct 3India had a watchful start with the bat
- 1:20 AM IST, Oct 3Yesterday, Siraj stars as WI bowled out for 162
- 1:10 AM IST, Oct 3KL Rahul and Shubman Gill at the crease
- 12:57 AM IST, Oct 3HELLO AND WELCOME BACK!

India vs West Indies Highlights, 1st Test Day 2: India are in a commanding position, after three centuries on Day 2 of the ongoing first Test vs West Indies, in Ahmedabad on Friday. KL Rahul, who was unbeaten after his half-century on Day 1, made sure to build on his start and got his century. He smacked 100 off 197 balls, including 12 fours in total. Meanwhile, India captain Shubman gill also got a fifty off 100 balls. Dhruv Jurel also made sure that he made use of his opportunity, smacking 125 off 210 balls, packed with 15 fours and three sixes. All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten at 104* off 176 balls, and also clattered six fours and five sixes. He will resume batting with Washington Sundar (9*) on Day 3. Jurel and Jadeja's tons were key as it kept India's scoring going, ensuring that the dismissals of Shubman Gill and KL Rahul either side of lunch don't end up affecting the team's ability to create a big first innings lead....Read More
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: STUMPS
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: 4 runs conceded in the final over of the day, as Jadeja remains unbeaten at 104*. He will resume batting with Sundar (9*) on Day 3.
IND: 448/5 (128), lead by 286 runs | STUMPS
WI: 162 (first innings)
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: IND - 439/5 (126), lead by 278 runs
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Three runs from this over, including Jadeja's ton. India lead by 278 runs now!
IND: 439/5 (126), lead by 278 runs
WI: 162 (first innings)
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Hundred for Jadeja!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Jadeja gets his single and also gets his ton off 168 balls! WHAT A KNOCK! BIG MOMENT!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: OUT! Jurel departs!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: OUT! FINALLY! Pierre gets his man! Maiden Test wicket! Jurel gets an outside edge and it is taken by Hope!
Jurel c Hope b Pierre 125 (210)
IND: 424/5 (123), lead by 262 runs
WI: 162 (first innings)
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Jurel takes on Warrican!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: A full delivery by Warrican, and Jurel flicks it past the short third man region for a fuor! Then he hammers Warrican for a six, straight down the ground!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: 4-0-4! Jurel accelerates!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Tossed up by Warrican, full no off. Jurel sweeps it to the deep square leg boundary for a four. Then its a dot, and then he smacks another four, past the diving cover fielder!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Jurel gets his ton!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Jurel does it in style! GETS HIS TON! MAIDEN TON IN TESTS! He smacks Chase for a four to get to the milestone!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: 150 partnership completed!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Jadeja smacks Chase for a four to deep square leg and gets the 150 partnership with Jurel!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: IND's lead crosses 200
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Three runs from this over as Jurel closes in on his ton. He is batting at 88* right now and Jadeja is at 68*.
IND: 364/4 (111), lead by 202 runs
WI: 162 (first innings)
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: FOUR! GOOD SHOT!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: A full delivery by Greaves and on off. JAdeja drives it wide of mid-off for a four! SHOT!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Maiden over for Chase
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Maiden over for Chase, Jadeja (59*) and Jurel's (77*) partnership is growing.
IND: 344/4 (106), lead by 183 runs
WI: 162 (first innings)
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: IND - 337/4 (102), lead by 178 runs
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: One run conceded in the 102nd over as Layne keeps it tight. Jurel (74*) and Jadeja (55*) are going strong here for the hosts.
IND: 337/4 (102), lead by 178 runs
WI: 162 (first innings)
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Windies finding movement but the speeds are down
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Seales and Layne both finding movement through the air and off the pitch, which means the batters are hesitating to attack them. However, the threat is not at its highest as the pace has dropped just a touch from both. A little more oomph needed from the visiting team, to get something out of this fresh pill.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Second new ball finally taken
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: So the new ball taken now. 97 overs through. Johann Layne has only bowled 11 overs so far, and will want to bend his back and give a solid showing while the ball is fresh.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Back for the evening session
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Welcome back for this last period of play. India will look to keep going, and will likely want both Nitish Reddy and Washington Sundar to get time in the middle as well. Would be surprising if we see a declaration tonight, but there's always some surprise up these sleeves.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: TEA CALLED, India's lead at 164
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: A wicket in the first over of this session, but then nothing else for the Windies. Their body language says it all as they trudge off. Their bowling just hasn't had the firepower to bother India. A great partnership, though, nothing should be taken away from Jurel and Jadeja. Back soon after the break.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Jadeja reaches 50 – his seventh in last nine innings
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Some run of form that India's senior statesman is in. Only getting better with age. Has taken to batting at number six with so much comfort. Never looked close to getting out. Out comes the sword celebration.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Lead up to 150
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Everything a little too easy for India at the moment. The energy has been sapped from West Indies – not what you want to see on day 2 of a series.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: 300 up and Jurel looking sensational
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: This is very quickly becoming a really good innings from Jurel. Picking the gaps behind square on the offside with perfection. Some really good batting, and India have reached 300. Lead up to 138.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Fifty for Dhruv Jurel!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Nice innings from Jurel, this. Looked comfortable against pace, and able to rotate against spinners as well. In Pant's absence, filling big boots, and making a very good case for himself.
Still no second new ball. Old ball the way Windies are going.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Drinks, India's lead up to 112
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Field pushed out when Seales is bowling with these two batters still looking to attack. West Indies' tactics a little unclear – Seales is generating movement with the old ball, but the fields set are a touch defensive despite that.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: 80 overs through, but Seales keeps the old ball
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Seales generating just a touch of reverse swing with the old ball, so West Indies just testing it out to see if they can get value from it with the batters looking to attack. Seales and Jurel sharing some light-spirited chatter between some deliveries. Expect Seales to take the second new ball the next time he comes in for an over, though.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Jurel brings up 100-run lead with towering six
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Happy to go after the spinners and take calculated risks, these two. Hitting it so cleanly. Jurel connects sweetly and takes the score to 262/4, which means the lead is in triple digits. Just what India wanted despite Rahul's dismissal.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: And six more! Carbon copy from Jadeja
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Yep, the message is pretty clear now. Only 8 overs to the second new ball, but India will try to get value for their shots before that point. In the same over, hops out again, and clears long on again. Great hitting.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Jadeja joins in! Sixes in consecutive overs
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: India not shying away from taking the attack to the Windies now! Jadeja jumps down the track to Warrican, and a simple swing of his bat with the spin clears long on comfortably.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Jurel rocks back and picks up 6
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Marginally short from Roston Chase, and Jurel is very quick to read the length and pull it over midwicket. First six of the match.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Soft dismissal! Rahul chips one right to cover
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Disappointing wicket! Loss of focus for KL Rahul. Warrican on, and Rahul tries to push it through the covers. Never at the pitch of the ball, and just gives catching practice to the man there. A small window for the Windies here, but Jadeja next man in.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Second new ball, Jurel's batting key in post-lunch session
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Not too far from resumption of play after lunch now. These next 13 overs do present a chance to score some quick runs, but that hasn't been India's style in this phase of matches recently. Dhruv Jurel, who will want to stake a claim as more than just a backup for Rishabh Pant, knows the key of him getting a big score here. But the Windies will likely go spin heavy before giving Jayden Seales access to the second new ball. Important phase of play, quietly.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Rahul's two home centuries the longest an Indian player has had to wait
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Rahul took 3211 days between his 199 in Chennai in 2016 and his ongoing century today, which stands as the longest an Indian player has had to wait between two centuries at home in Test cricket. Ravichandran Ashwin had to wait from 2013 to 2021, and his record (of sorts) now stands broken.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: 218/3 at lunch, lead of 56
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: KL Rahul's terrific century has ensured that India are well on their way towards a strong lead. A terrific innings, one he will certainly be chuffed with. India strolling along at the minute, and West Indies will now be hoping the second new ball due in 13 overs after lunch will help them claw back the meagre ground they had and have already lost. A break!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Century for KL Rahul!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Well-deserved ton for KL Rahul! He has batted with great application and polish, and has looked in great touch. Only his second home century, and ends a wait of 9 years since his first.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Rahul marching towards century
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: He's batted really well, and with some positivity against the spinners. Not too far from a century now, well into the 90s. Lead past 40.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Gill is out trying a reverse sweep!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Disappointing wicket! Partnership was at 98, Gill was looking good, but he tries a reverse sweep and it just loops up nicely for slip to complete the catch. KL Rahul had pulled it off a few deliveries earlier, but not so for Gill.
188/3, Gill looks disappointed in himself. Dhruv Jurel comes in.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Fifty for Shubman Gill!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: He has been in sensational form in Test cricket in recent months. A historic series in England in his captaincy debut, and now in his first Test at home as skipper, reaches a fifty as well. Hoping for a big one here himself.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Gill onto 44*, Rahul 76*, at drinks
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: So just a perfect morning for India. Lead stands at 12. This partnership is one which will be difficult to dislodge now that they are set, you feel.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: India take the lead!
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Goal one for the second morning achieved! Shubman Gill rocks back and calmly chops Pierre through backward point to pick up for, and now India lead by 3. Building from here.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Imperious from Gill! 150 up
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Oh, just rude. Takes a couple of steps down the ground and flicks it with impudence through midwicket. Sweet as you like. 11 runs to the deficit.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Another nice cut shot for 4 from Rahul
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: That is a shot he has really developed in the last 7 or 8 months. Waits for it to come to him, and then just uses those wrists to guide it with power through a vacant backward point area. Times it so well.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Fifty partnership up for the third wicket
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: Fifty up for this duo. Deficit down to 22. Still a little bit of movement off the pitch for the moment.
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: KL Rahul battling a hamstring strain
India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 2: KL Rahul did pull up with his hamstring while batting yesterday, and pictures from before start of play today show him making sure he has it stretched out and active. Not completely at 100%, but the signs aren't too concerning for now. Just something to keep an eye on as his innings grows.
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Another boundary as an errant one sprays down leg side!
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Exactly how West Indies didn't want to start! They need to be accurate but have already conceded 14 runs in the first 9 balls of the day. That lead is shrinking fast.
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Here we go on Day 2!
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Jayden Seales gets us going, and already a couple of boundaries, including one which catches KL Rahul's edge and goes flying through the gap at first slip! Slightly fortunate already, Windies will feel hard done.
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: WI's desire for the intangibles as committee begins task of revitalising the sport
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: West Indies cricket, once such a powerhouse, boasting of some of the greatest legends of the game, is in the most anxious of doldrums. After their 27 all-out debacle vs Australia, a good start to this tour was essential – but they didn't get it.
The good news for those who hope to see the Windies back at the top of the game is that some of those greats, headlined by Clive Lloyd and Brian Lara, have come on board with CWI to try and diagnose and then solve the problems, with an official statement after day's play yesterday creating the outline for that change. Today, the Windies have to prove that for all the logistical change, they have the internal drive to support it.
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Half an hour to start of play
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Day 1 brought overcast conditions, and Day 2 might provide more of the same: a cloud cover will make it a humid day. Both teams know the importance of starting off well: India don't want to lose a wicket, and the Windies want to ensure they don't let Gill in particular settle in and get that score moving forward with too much ease or too quickly.
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: When will spin become a factor?
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Probably a little too early to ask this question, but it has been a pitch for the seamers thus far. Siraj was on fire in the first half of the day, Bumrah's searing yorkers cleaned up the tail, and Jayden Seales was also making the ball talk quite a lot, albeit without much success until he dismissed Yashasvi Jaiswal. But in India, the wariness is always with the spin, which is why both teams are holding onto three spinning options in this match.
There is already a little bit of turn in the pitch, and if it does begin to crack a little early, things might equalise just a touch as the Windies tweakers come into it.
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Siraj reflects on missing first Test five-fer at home
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Mohammed Siraj was spectacular in how he made the ball sing early. However, his hunt for a fifth wicket was stymied – but no regrets for a player who wears his heart on his sleeve.
"Sir, even here I took four wickets only by working hard," Siraj said. "You only get wickets by working hard. I got wickets in England by working hard, and I worked hard for them here too. It isn't as if anyone gave me wickets free of cost. No one gave me that fifth wicket. All four wickets came from hard work."
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Small chance of rain in Ahmedabad
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: North and west India have seen some surprise showers this week, and the weather forecast reads that there are small chances of precipitation today, particularly in the afternoon. However, keep in mind that heavier rain was expected yesterday, but it stayed away as we got to watch an uninterrupted day's play of cricket.
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: 41 runs to get, then building from scratch with batting yet to come
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: In the morning session, India's goal will just be to reach that 162 mark without another wicket. At that point, there will be a mental reset, where they will look to put up a score that will ensure they only have to bat once. There is still batting to come down the order, with Jurel, Jadeja, Reddy, and Sundar in the tank.
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: KL Rahul already on 53*, wants a big one
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: KL Rahul has a notorious record of never quite making the numbers to match the obvious quality and utility he possesses. set on 53*, and beginning to look more confident, this is an opportunity he will see as one he wants to convert: remember, he still only has one Test century on Indian soil, which is a remarkable stat for someone with double digit Test centuries. That is something he needs to improve, and that is something he could make the first step towards today.
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: Shubman Gill comes in and steadies the ship
India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Day 2: After a couple of quick wickets in succession and the end of day approaching, a third wicket could have sent some jitters through the Indian camp, and brought the Windies right into this one. However, Shubman Gill came in, and as befits a captain, showed great patience and maturity to dull the ball even further and soak up the pressure. The dividends of his 42 balls faced might be seen today.