New Delhi: Like many other occasions in the past, India started their Caribbean odyssey in a much familiar fashion – slumping to 85/6 in their first innings of the first Test – but this time around, instead of buckling down, they came out firing, showed resilience and mettle to come victorious in the end.
The visitors were in a precarious situation when more than half of their side had gone back to the pavilion on the very first morning at the Sabina Park, but then we witnessed the 'never say die' attitude of this new-look Indian side. Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh played out of their skins to script what was the defining moment of the match.
Both batsmen threw caution to the wind and took the attack to the opposition bowlers from the outset. Harbhajan, whose batting has improved by leaps and bounds in the recent past, was the more attacking of the two. He swatted ten fours and a maximum in his scintillating 70-run knock and strung a 146-run stand with Raina, who too contributed with an invaluable 82, to take India to a modest score.
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