The middle-order batsmen Roston Chase and the skipper Jason Holder’s brilliant century partnership for the seventh wicket has helped the visitors’ Windies to fight back in the second and final Test of the series against the hosts India at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium (Uppal, Hyderabad).

On the opening day of the Test match, Windies captain Jason Holder decided to bat first. The top-order batting again failed as none of them capitalized their starts. Among their top-five batsmen, only the opener Kieran Powell (22) and the no.3 batsman Shai Hope (36) reached the 20-run marks.

Once, the visitors were really struggling on 113/5. Roston Chase has rescued the team from that difficult situation with the back-to-back two good partnerships. At first, he had a 69-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Shane Dowrich, who played a crucial 30-run knock at that time.

At next, Chase put another good partnership with the skipper Jason Holder for the seventh wicket and this time it was the 104-run partnership, where both completed their half-centuries. The skipper Holder scored 52 runs off 92 balls with 6 fours before he was dismissed at the last moment of the day.

Meanwhile, Chase reached to his half-century in 80 balls and continued his innings till the stumps. At the stumps on the opening day, Chase remained unbeaten on 98 off 174 balls (7 fours and only six) and Devendra Bishoo (2*) is supporting him from the other end as Windies were on 295/7.

Among the Indian bowlers, Umesh Yadav (3/83) and Kuldeep Yadav (3/74) have picked up three wickets each while Ravichandran Ashwin (1/49) claimed one wicket. The debutant right-arm pacer Shardul Thakur was only able to bowl 10 balls before missed out the remaining entire day due to an injury.

Some important stats of day 1 of Hyderabad Test between India and Windies

• Windies skipper Jason Holder scored 52 runs. Since January 1988, it was the first 50+ knock in a Test innings by a West Indies captain against India on the Indian soil. The last time it happened in January 1988 when Viv Richards scored 68 runs at Chennai. In between this long period of time, only one 50+ knock was played in international cricket by a West Indies captain against India on the Indian soil and that was 83 by Brian Lara during Chennai ODI on 27 January 2007.
• All the top eight Windies batsmen played the double-digit knocks in the ongoing first innings. Since December 1994, it is the first time when all the top eight Windies batsmen played the double-digit knocks in a Test innings against India.
• Windies cricketers Roston Chase and Jason Holder provided a crucial 104-run partnership for the seventh wicket. It is the third highest seventh-wicket Test partnership for Windies against India on the Indian soil.
• It was the third Test century partnership between Roston Chase and Jason Holder for the seventh wicket. It was the most number of Test century partnerships for the seventh wicket between a particular pair.
• Indian left-arm chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav completed his 100th wicket in the international career as he has taken 100 wickets in 47 international cricket innings. Since his international cricket debut on 25 March 2017, Kuldeep is the second most wicket-taker in international cricket as he is just behind from the South African pacer Kagiso Rabada who has taken 115 international wickets in this period.