Day three of the second Test between India and the West Indies at the Feroz Shah Kotla grounds on Sunday was as much a tale of two halves for India as it was for their top-performing bowler.

Kuldeep Yadav romped to a fifth five-wicket haul in his 15th Test match on Sunday, looking penetrative and threatening every time he took the ball here. And then when he returned for the second innings after India enforced the follow-on, he was targeted by West Indies’ batsmen very effectively, leaking 53 runs in his 11 overs, being hit for five fours and two sixes as the visitors shrunk lead to under 100 runs, ending the day’s play at 173/2.

It appropriately defined the high-risk, high-reward approach of India’s mystery spinner; his deceit and game-turning deliveries go hand-in-hand with his tenden

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