After India declared their first innings at 518-5, West Indies were skittled out for 248. India, having already taken a 1-0 lead in the two-match series, enforced the follow-on.
John Campbell and Shai Hope lead West Indies' fightback
Following their underwhelming first innings, the tourists put up a fight, spearheaded by individual hundreds from Campbell and Hope. They stitched together a 177-run stand, helping West Indies avoid an innings defeat. Campbell, who returned to the Test side for the first time in three years during the Australia series, hit a 199-ball 115, his maiden Test century.
With Yashasvi Jaiswal also scoring 175 for India in the first innings, this was only the fourth time two left-handed opening batters have scored hundreds in a Test match in India.
The Australia Tests also marked Hope’s return to the Test side after a hiatus of four years; he scored 103 off 214 deliveries for his first century since making twin hundreds in the Leeds Test against England in 2017.
Most individual hundreds after following on
This is the 15th instance in which at least two batters have scored hundreds after following on. The last time this occurred on Indian soil was during the famous 2001 Eden Gardens Test, when VVS Laxman (281) and Rahul Dravid (180) helped the hosts set up a match-winning 384-run target for Australia, despite having conceded a 274-run first-innings lead.
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The joint record for the most individual centuries in an innings after following on is held by two teams. England set the benchmark first, with Geoff Pullar (119), Ken Barrington (172), and Ted Dexter (126) scoring hundreds against India in 1961. South Africa later matched the feat when Graeme Smith (107), Neil McKenzie (138), and Hashim Amla (104) tonned up against England in 2008.