For India, Shubman Gill’s 10th Test century — his fifth in seven matches since becoming captain — set up another day of one-way traffic in this Test series. For the West Indies, barring an hour or so of defiance from Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Alick Athanaze after tea, there was no escape from agony.

At stumps on day two of the second Test at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday, the men from the Caribbean were grimly positioned at 140 for four, still 378 runs adrift of the host’s first-innings total of 518 for five declared. That the West Indians batting 43 overs with six wickets intact was an improvement on the first Test paints a sorry picture.

After India declared an hour after lunch with Gill unbeaten on 129, the new-ball pair of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj probed the openers.

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