India vs West Indies, 1st Test - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

KL Rahul: Yeah, it has. Really enjoyed my batting. Playing in different conditions. England was fun. Obviously getting runs there gives you a lot of confidence and coming into this game with some runs behind me also helped. Feeling fresher after a longish break after the series. Yeah, I really enjoyed being back. (Were you nervous?) No, not really. Because I just played a game last week (for India A). So yeah, I was a bit nervous playing there because I haven't been on the field for a good 5-6 weeks. So just to get back into that rhythm, just to get back into getting runs and spending time in the field and coming in day after day for 4-5 days is a bit of a challenge physically as well. The conditions here have been really really challenging physically. The game that I played last week was even worse. So yeah, physically it's been really challenging. But yeah, it's good to be out in the middle and it was good for me to have that game and get some miles in me. (Why it is only his 2nd hundred at home?) Not sure really. But yeah, somehow I think the only thing that I've worked on in the last year or so has been maintaining my batting tempo. Just enjoying the phases that are not as exciting for me in my own head. Obviously when you travel abroad and play seaming swinging conditions with extra bounce, there's a lot of challenge doing that. And when you come back home, when there's 3 spinners playing and the field's spread out, you really need to get your runs with singles. The boundaries don't come that easily. So yeah, that's something that I've worked on and needed to make that mental switch to enjoy doing that, enjoy grinding and getting 100s with singles and twos as well. So that's something that I've worked on in the last year or so. And yeah, I think that's the only difference that I can see and probably that's what I wasn't doing that well previously when I played at home. (About the celebration) It was for my daughter.

STAT: Five sixes by Jadeja off Warrican - the joint second most by an Indian batter against an opposition bowler in a Test innings, only behind MS Dhoni's six sixes off Dave Mohammad in St John's in 2006 (where ball-by-ball details are available).

16:44 Local Time, 11:14 GMT, 16:44 IST: India end Day 2 firmly in the driver’s seat, leading by 286 runs and on this surface, that already looks plenty against an inexperienced West Indies batting line-up. It was a day of milestones for the hosts, with three centurions. KL Rahul began scratchily, edging one through the slips early on, but grew into his innings to bring up just his second Test hundred at home. Dhruv Jurel, in contrast, looked assured from the moment he arrived after Gill’s dismissal - calm, composed, and clinical on his way to a maiden Test century. Ravindra Jadeja lit it up with an aggressive start, launching into the spinners before reining himself in to reach yet another hundred in what has already been a prolific year. West Indies had their moments, showing discipline in patches, but couldn’t sustain the pressure long enough. Now, they face a mountain to climb. Can they summon more fight on Day 3? or will India wrap it up? We’ll find out tomorrow. Until then, it’s goodbye.

Warrican to Washington Sundar, 1 run, that's stumps. Full outside off, Washington Sundar gets forward and smashes the drive, Warrican dives to his left and gets something on it, deflects it to mid-off. The batters walk off as India dominate the day

Warrican to Washington Sundar, no run, tossed up full on off, Washington Sundar gets forward to defend to short mid-wicket

Warrican to Jadeja, 1 run, good length on off, Jadeja goes on the back foot and works it to deep mid-wicket

Warrican to Jadeja, no run, flat good length around off, Jadeja goes on the back foot and taps to short mid-wicket

Warrican to Jadeja, no run, that's the line and length, tossed up and into the rough, makes Jadeja lunge forward to defend and he does well to smother it

Last over of the day.

Warrican to Jadeja, leg byes, 2 runs, turns in sharply, on middle, Jadeja gets forward to flick, misses, brushes the pads and runs away to fine-leg, given as legbyes, easily missing leg though

Khary Pierre to Jadeja, 1 run, good length and slides across Jadeja, flat, he goes on the back foot and dabs it wide of slip

Khary Pierre to Washington Sundar, 1 run, good length on the pads, Washington Sundar works it to deep mid-wicket for one

Khary Pierre to Washington Sundar, no run, good length on leg-stump, tucked to short-leg, Washington Sundar was looking for a run and had to rush back, a clean stop from the fielder and Sundar was in trouble

Khary Pierre to Washington Sundar, no run, on a length just outside off, Washington Sundar taps it back off the back foot

-- This is the fourth instance of India having three or more batters scoring 100s in the same innings in a calendar year after 1979, 1986, & 2007.

Khary Pierre round the wicket.

Khary Pierre to Washington Sundar, 2 runs, tossed up full outside off, Washington Sundar reaches for it and gets forward to sweep wide of deep mid-wicket for two

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Khary Pierre to Jadeja, 1 run, good length on middle, Jadeja goes on the back foot and tucks it to deep mid-wicket

Warrican to Jadeja, 1 run, tossed up full outside off, Jadeja gets low and reverse-sweeps to third man