KL Rahul, India defeat West Indies in second Test to sweep series

India wins the two-match bid with a ascendant seven-wicket triumph successful New Delhi earlier their circuit of Australia.

A ascendant India completed a 2-0 bid expanse against West Indies pursuing their seven-wicket triumph successful the last trial astatine New Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium connected Tuesday.

Chasing 121 for victory against a modest West Indies attack, the location broadside achieved the people successful the last day’s greeting league with KL Rahul making 58 not retired and B Sai Sudharsan contributing 39.

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“It’s a truly large honour and I would accidental I’m getting utilized to it,” said location skipper Shubman Gill, who registered his archetypal bid triumph since taking implicit arsenic trial skipper earlier this year.

“Managing each the players and starring this squad is simply a large honour.”

India won the bid opener successful Ahmedabad wrong 3 days and put themselves successful the container seat in the 2nd lucifer when they amassed 518-5 earlier declaring their archetypal innings.

West Indies folded for 248 successful the archetypal innings and were made to travel on.

The visitors delivered a much-improved batting show successful their 2nd innings and rode hundreds by John Campbell and Shai Hope to station 390 each out to stretch the contention to its last day.

Resuming connected 63-1, India needed conscionable an hr to implicit the chase, but West Indies managed to drawback a mates of wickets courtesy of 2 superb catches.

Touring captain Roston Chase dismissed Sudharsan with Hope diving to instrumentality a debased drawback successful the slip.

Gill (13) hit a six and a 4 earlier miscuing a shot from Rose. Justin Greaves locked connected to the swirling shot and ran from midwicket to instrumentality a superb catch.

That was the past of the drama, and Rahul deed the winning bound to seal India’s win.

India spinner Kuldeep Yadav, who claimed a lucifer haul of 8 wickets, was named subordinate of the lucifer and teammate Ravindra Jadeja subordinate of the tournament.

West Indies captain Chase said his broadside would instrumentality immoderate positives from the defeat.

“The positives for america successful this lucifer was that Campbell and Hope played good and scored hundreds,” helium added.

“We batted 100 overs aft a agelong time, that was different positive. Taking the crippled to the 5th day, that was large for us.”

India’s circuit of Australia begins connected October 19 with the archetypal one-day planetary (ODI) successful Perth.

Rahul celebrates aft scoring 50 runs connected the 5th time of the 2nd cricket trial lucifer betwixt India and West Indies [Manish Swarup/AP]