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Jul 07, 2011 Sports
By Sean Devers
in Dominica
In association
with Digicel & Queensway
Persistent rain, which washed out play after just 3.1 overs after Lunch, spoilt an auspicious day for Dominicans yesterday as Windsor Park became the 12th Test venue in the West Indies and the 106th in the World.
When play was eventually called off at 16:30hrs under dark, ominous clouds, West Indies were 75-3 on a slow straw-colored track with some preparation moisture after India had won the toss.
Thirty-six year-old Shivnarine Chanderpaul, playing in his 133rd Test, the most by any West Indian, is unbeaten on 17 from 44 balls, while 22-year-old fellow left-hander Darren Bravo is with him on 22 from 53 balls.
The fourth wicket partnership between the team’s oldest and most successful batsmen and one of its youngest players is worth already 40 and with just Marlon Samuels of the specialist batsmen to come, could play a crucial role today in fashioning the outcome of this contest.
Kieran Powell and Kurt Edwards were given debuts as Kemar Roach and Lendl Simmons were left on the bench. But both rookies and Adrian Barath fell cheaply as the West Indies batting woes continued. Pacer Inshant Sharma continued his impressive work with the ball with 2-23 from eight overs, while his new ball partner Praveen Kumar has 1-19 from 10. The left-handed Powell (3) was first to go when he edged Kumar to VVS Laxman second slip at 17-1. It was soon 24-2 when Barath (12) was bowled by Sharma, playing an impetuous pull after surviving a confident caught behind appeal off the previous delivery.
Edwards (6) was unlucky to be given caught behind at 35-3 when the ball clipped his helmet as he hooked at Sharma and the Indians, who have never won two Test matches in the West Indies, were in early control.
Chanderpaul, who led the West Indies between 2005 and 2006 in 14 of his 133 Tests, walked to the middle to a standing ovation from the fair size weekday crowd and by Lunch was unbeaten on 11.
Bravo, asked to bat at number four after Ramnaresh Sarwan lost his place in the squad, was undefeated on 17 by Lunch and the West Indies, who must win here to level the series, were 64-3.
After the interval, Bravo got going with a glorious off-driven boundary off Kumar while Chanderpaul, who has batted for 14 hours and 12 minutes and scored 165 runs in his last six innings, caressed Kumar to the cover boundary before rain stopped play after 3.1 overs after the break with the score on 75-3.
Chanderpaul’s landmark of surpassing Courtney Walsh’s 132 Tests was acknowledged in a simply ceremony before the start of play, while the Guyanese who made his debut on his home ground Bourda in 1994, was given the honour of presenting the pair of debutants with their West Indies caps.
Play is scheduled to commence at 09:30hrs today but with more rain forecast for today a prompt start is unlikely.
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