NEW DELHI: Assessing Sai Sudharsan’s temperament and Nitish Kumar Reddy’s utility in home conditions would be topmost on India’s checklist when the high-on-confidence host takes on a floundering West Indies team in the second and final Test, starting here on Friday.

India’s fine ensemble of individually gifted cricketers, each capable of walking into any top side internationally, will be pitted against a West Indies outfit that looks a pale shadow of its glorious past and is struggling to stay relevant in the traditional format.

It’s a team that now comprises largely reluctant players who might not even find takers in the ever-expanding global T20 freelance circuit.

An innings defeat without a semblance of fight in Ahmedabad was a testimony to the current state of flux in Caribbean cri

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