Chase defies India as 2nd Test ends in draw

Roston Chase joined elite company as West Indies escaped with an unlikely draw against India in the second Test which concluded on Wednesday.Chase scored 137 not out to lead West Indies to safety, with the home team losing only two wickets on the fifth and final day at Sabina Park in Kingston. West Indies had reached 388 for six in their second innings when India captain Virat Kohli conceded a draw with a few overs still remaining. If not quite qualifying as a miracle, the result was certainly unexpected after the Windies began the final day staring down the barrel of defeat, precariously placed on 48 for four and still needing another 256 to make India bat again. Even though rain washed out most of day four, it seemed a formality for India to quickly wrap up victory and take a 2-0 lead in the four-test series, but West Indies batsmen dominated from the very first over as Chase and his fellow middle-order batsman displayed assurance and more than a touch of class.Their performances will give Caribbean cricket fans hope that their team has a future in the five-day format.Chase, in just his second Test, took 5-121 with his off-spin in the India innings, before showing his class with the bat.He became just the fourth West Indies player to score a century and take five wickets in the same Test, and the first to do so in 50 years.  Gary Sobers, the only player to accomplish the feat twice, last achieved that double in 1966. The small crowd erupted in rapturous applause when Chase completed his century and raised his bat in celebration, with nobody clapping louder than Viv Richards.