Rain and wet outfield wash out 2nd day of 4th Test

The entire second day of the fourth and final cricket Test between India and the West Indies was lost due to poor weather and unplayable conditions, here today.
Not a single ball could be bowled as the hosts remained at the overnight score of 66 for two.
No play was possible after two umpire inspections deemed the ground unfit for continuation of the match.
Two heavy thundershowers on Thursday evening made sure that the ground would not be prepared on time for a 9.30 am local time start today.
The sun shone bright in the morning but for lack of proper equipment, the ground could not be prepared for a timely start.

After the first inspection, the umpires took a look two hours later again, and then listed another inspection for 1 pm local time.

The final inspection of the day was held at 2.30 pm local time and play was called off, owing to wet patches in the outfield as well as at the bowlers' run-ups on both ends.
The players who had come to the ground, meanwhile, were left dejected.
India had removed Leon Johnson (9) and Darren Bravo (10) yesterday before rains started lashing the Queen's Park Oval.
Kraigg Brathwaite (32) and Marlon Samuels (4) are at the crease for the hosts.

Brief Scores:
(REOPENS DEL 83)
Starting the chase, Rohit Sharma (15), who was in considerable pain after his dismissal having done some damage to his biceps along with Virat Kohli (9), Ajinkya Rahane (28) and Manish Pandey (19) didn't score too many as India were reduced to 73 for 4 within 20th over.
Earlier, Kane Williamson was in his element hitting a classy hundred but New Zealand lost momentum during the slog overs to end up scoring 242 for 9 against India after being put into bat.
Williamson, who has had an indifferent tour so far, struck a fluent 118 off 128 balls with 14 boundaries and a six. However save opener Tom Latham (46), none of the other batsmen could provide considerable support.

The last 15 overs of the innings yielded only 66 runs for the Black Caps.
While Amit Mishra (3/60 in 10 overs) picked up important wicket of Williamson, it was Jasprit Bumrah (3/35 in 10 overs) whose bowling was a revelation during death overs. He made a technically equipped Williamson crawl with a toe-crushing yorker and another unplayable delivery in the blockhole got found Tim Southee failing to get his bat down.
In all, Bumrah bowled an astounding 37 dot balls in his 10 overs while the entire team bowled 161 in all which is equivalent to 26.5 overs without scoring.

Umesh Yadav (1/42) started with a perfect delivery that pitched on the middle and no one can blame Martin Guptill (0) as he tried to reach to the line of the delivery. It moved a shade knocking the off-stump back.
However Williamson looked confident from the outset as he was timed his shots to perfection. He had an able ally in Latham as they put on 120 runs for the second wicket in 20 overs at a fair clip.
Williamson started by whipping Yadav to mid-wicket followed by a cover drive and a flick off Pandya. Williamson pulled a short ball from Bumrah and a deliberate slash over slips to collect a couple of more boundaries.

When Axar Patel was introduced into the attack, his short ball was promptly dispatched to the mid-wicket boundary and then the skipper came down the track to loft him over long-on. To add insult to the injury, he used the pace of the next delivery to guide it past gully for a boundary.
At 46, Pandya dropped a low catch off Jasprit Bumrah's bowling and then he swept Mishra to complete his half-century with a boundary.
Left hander Latham was more partial to cover drives while he slog swept Mishra for a big six.
It was Kedar Jadhav, who bowled one full and Latham missed the line to be adjudged leg before. His run-a-ball 46 comprised six boundaries and a six.

But Mohammad Shami slamed a 22-ball 19 studded with two sixes and one four as he along with Jayant Yadav (27 not out; 4x4) added 42 runs from 58 balls in an extended lunch session.
India's second innings folded for 204 in 63.1 overs after Moeen Ali (1/9) ended Shami's quickfire innnings.
Earlier a brave Stuart Board led England's fightback as he claimed with 4/33, while legspinner Adil Rashid returned with 4/82 but they struggled to dismiss the tail with some counterattack by the duo of Shami and Jayant.
Defeat looking imminent, the embattled England found some solace in Stuart Board's incisive bowling after India resumed in the penultimate morning on 98/3.

The tall pacer defied a strained tendon in his right forefoot and bowled a fine spell of 8-0-27-2, dismissing the overnight batsman Ajinkya Rahane (26) and Ravichandran Ashwin (7).
As his partnership with Kohli began to grow, Rahane was done in by an unplayable delivery that seemingly rose awkwardly from a crack before kissing his gloves and was gloved by Jonny Bairstow.
Broad may have broken the stand at 87, but the sharp bounce and the crack was a welcome for sign for Indian bowlers and concern for the English batsmen who would bat last on a worn-out Dr YSR Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium pitch.

Having survived on six after a successful referral, Ashwin did not last long and became Broad's fourth victim edging one behind the stumps.