1st Test: WI 116 ahead, 8 wickets in hand

New Delhi: Seventeen wickets fell during the second day as West Indies grabbed a slight advantage over India with a 116 -run lead, having bowled out the hosts for 209 in their first innings at the Feroz Shah Kotla.
Earlier, skipper Darren Sammy produced an inspired spell to help the visitors dismiss India for 209 and take a useful 95-run lead. Sammy finished with 3/35, as only Virender Sehwag (55) and Rahul Dravid (54) contributed scores of any significance.
 West Indies were 21 for two at the close of an eventful day's play. Kirk Edwards was batting on 15 while night-watchman Fidel Edwards was yet to open his account as they managed to negotiate Pragyan Ojha and Ravichandran Ashwin after India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni started with spin from both ends. Kraigg Brathwaite and Kieran Powell were the two batsmen to be dismissed. With three full days left, India will seek to dismiss West Indies as quickly as possible to try and come back into the match.

Once West Indies were bowled out for 304, the Indian openers got off to a brisk start, with Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir (41) dominating the Windies' pace attack with exciting strokeplay to put on 89 runs in just 12.3 overs.
Gambhir was unlucky to be dismissed in the 13th over as he was run out backing up, with Sammy deflecting a Sehwag straight-drive on to the stumps. Sehwag raced to his half-century off just 36 balls before falling in Devendra Bishoo's opening over, brilliantly stumped by Carlton Baugh, who removed the bails when the batsman's foot was in the air.
As the opening duo departed, the Indian middle ordered crumpled on the uneven Kotla track. Pacer Fidel Edwards got a big wicket when he trapped Sachin Tendulkar leg-before for just 7 and denied the maestro an unprecedented 100 international hundreds.

Dravid was then joined by VVS Laxman but the latter's stay at the crease was uncharacteristically brief, playing away from his body and edging Bishoo to Baugh for just 1. An aggressive Yuvraj Singh gave India some late momentum in the afternoon but it proved short-lived as he was out for 23 in the second over after tea, driving to the man in the covers off the bowling of Sammy and it spurred the West Indies skipper into life. Sammy then sent back Dhoni without troubling the scorers in the same over before Baugh once again came to the action to pull off a smart catch to send Ashwin (0) packing in his next over.
Ishant Sharma provided some brief resistance as he put on a partnership of 49 with Dravid before he was unluckily given caught down the leg side for 17. Dravid then soon brought up his 61st Test fifty before falling to Ravi Rampaul for 54 and the pacer sendt back Umesh Yadav very next ball.
Earlier, the visitors had crumbled from 269 for five to 304 all out on the back of a six-wicket haul from Ojha (6/72). West Indies added just 48 to their overnight total of 256 for 5. Ojha took three of the five Windies' wickets to fall in the opening session, while Sharma and debutant off-spinner Ashwin each got one wicket. Ashwin finished with 3/81 off 27 overs.