INDIA TOUR OF WEST INDIES 2019

Rahane, Vihari stroke fifties; West Indies A hold on to a draw

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Ajinkya Rahane added 96 runs for the second wicket with Hanuma Vihari © Getty

Ajinkya Rahane and Hanuma Vihari stroked fifties as India set West Indies A a 305-run target, before the three-day practice game ended in a draw. The hosts batted out 21 overs in the second innings, on Monday, and reached 47 for 3 before the match ended.

Resuming the innings on 84 for 1, the overnight pair of Rahane and Vihari added 34 to the overnight score before the latter was trapped legbefore by Akim Frazer, on 64. Rahane, who was the slower of the two in the 96-run second wicket alliance, however, picked his scoring rate and even hit a six.

Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja failed to make good of the opportunities for the second time in the match as they fell early. With Rahane falling soon after compiling his half-century, India had slipped from 118 for 1 to 162 for 5. Wriddhiman Saha and Ravichandran Ashwin spent around an hour in the middle before India declared their second innings on 188 for 5. Frazer, who accounted for the wickets of the two half-centurions, was the pick of the bowlers returning figures of 2 for 43 while Romario Shepherd and Khary Pierre bagged a wicket each.

In response, West Indies A began cautiously and were solid for the first half hour of their chase, which had effectively gone out of their reach. However, once Jasprit Bumrah struck in the eighth over, dismissing Kavem Hodge, a slide began. Jadeja and Ashwin, who much like Bumrah didn't have a wicket to show to their credit in the first innings, bagged a scalp each in their next 8.1 overs, dismissing Jeremy Solozano and Brandon King respectively.

India will now take on West Indies in the two-match Test series, which will also be the first World Test Championship match for the two teams respectively, starting on August 22 in Antigua's Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.

Brief Scores: India 297/5 (Cheteshwar Pujara 100; Jonathan Carter 3-39) & 188/5 (Hanuma Vihari 64; Akim Frazer 2-43) drew with West Indies A 187 (Kavem Hodge 51; Umesh Yadav 3-19) & 47/3 (Jeremy Solozano 16; Ravindra Jadeja 1-3)

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