IND vs WI 2025-26, 2nd Test, Day 5, Highlights: India register comprehensive Day 5 win in Delhi to complete clean 2-0 Test series sweep.
Brief Scores: IND 518/5 dec (Yashasvi Jaiswal 175, Shubman Gill 129*, Jomel Warrican 3/98) & 124/3 (KL Rahul 58*, Roston Chase 2/36) beat WI 248 (Alick Athanaze 41, Shai Hope 36, Kuldeep Yadav 5/82) & 390 (f/o) (John Campbell 115, Shai Hope 103, Jasprit Bumrah 3/44, Kuldeep Yadav 3/104) by seven wickets and seal series by 2-0.
Kuldeep Yadav (Player of the match)- “Playing back to back in always fun. When you put a lot of revs and generate arm speed, you get a lot of drift. Love to get batters bowled. Lovely to have Jadeja around, has always guided me.”
Ravindra Jadeja (Player of the series)- “I could get a chance to bowl overs with Ashwin not around. We’ve been wonderful across departments, great signs for the team in the last six months. Gautam Gambhir has given me the No. 6 spot. My mindset a spot or two down was different. Now I try to bat as long as possible.”
Roston Chase (West Indies captain)- “I think the guys we have here are some of the best players in the Caribbean. So it’s just for us to use this last Test match as a stepping stone and a confidence booster going into the upcoming series. We came up with a lot of ideas, playing behind the spin, sweeping, using our feet.”
Shubman Gill (India captain)- “Having a lead of around 300 runs, we thought of the follow-on because it could be tough to get six wickets on the fifth day here. We played NKR because we need seam-bowling all-rounders overseas. You learn from a young age how to help the team win.”
Twin centuries from Shai Hope and John Campbell led the West Indies’ fightback in the second innings at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. But their middle order fell like a pack of cards to Kuldeep Yadav’s superb bowling. The visitors lost six wickets for 40 runs before setting a target of 121 runs for India, who marched into a strong position.
The surface on the fifth day still looked good for batting if the batters applied themselves well. The clay content on this track wasn’t much, which brought its slowness and lack of bounce. However, that helped the batters to stay at the crease for longer.
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Talking point: Sai Sudharsan’s low score continues after good starts
It was a problem for Sai Sudharsan not to convert his starts into a big score. And it remains an issue after the West Indies series. In the first innings, he fell short of his century by 13 runs before getting 39 in the second innings. Now the question remains whether the management will still retain him for the number three spot or move ahead with Devdutt Padikkal for the South Africa series.
KL Rahul’s 58* completes India’s seven-wicket victory to seal series by 2-0
India’s two overnight batters, KL Rahul and Sai Sudharsan, start with a defensive mindset to understand the surface. The former missed a few balls against Jomel Warrican. But Rahul decided to use his muscles. He hammered the spinner for a boundary over long-on. The right-handed batter creamed Khary Pierre for a six and four to bring the target under 35 runs.
Roston Chase broke the 79-run second wicket stand as he found the outside edge of Sudharsan on 39. Hope displayed incredible reflexes to dive to his right to grab the catch. Shubman Gill came with the intent to end the game in a hurry.
After Gill’s dismissal, Rahul celebrated his 20th red-ball half-century. India completed the victory by seven wickets to seal the series 2-0.
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What’s next?
The focus for the Blue Brigade will now shift to the new era of ODI cricket under Gill’s captaincy. It will be a challenge for the youngster, but he has stood up to expectations in the past. The opening 50-over game of the three-match ODI series will begin on September 19 at the Optus Stadium in Perth.
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Statistical Highlights from IND vs WI, 2nd Test, Day, Delhi
- This is India’s 10th straight Test series win against West Indies.
- In H2H terms, India & West Indies have played 26 Test series against each other, with both sides winning 12 series & 2 drawn.
- Kuldeep Yadav emerged as the leading wicket-taker across sides with 12 scalps in this series.
- Yashasvi Jaiswal emerged as the leading run-scorer across sides in this series with 219 runs.
- This was India’s 15th Test win at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, making it the second-most successful venue for them in this format. Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium is India’s luckiest venue, where they have won 16 times.
- India last lost a Test at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in November 1987, incidentally, against West Indies. Since then India have never lost at this venue in the longest format, winning 12 & drawing 2.
- KL Rahul and Sai Sudharsan record India’s third-highest second-wicket stand (79) in Tests against West Indies in the fourth innings.
- KL Rahul and Sai Sudharsan record the third-highest second-wicket stand (79) in the fourth innings of Tests at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.
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