Ground staff covers the field as India's Rohit Sharma jogs back to the pavilion on the opening day of the fourth Test in Port of Spain on Thursday. APPort of Spain: Heavy rains caused suspension of play on day one of the fourth and final Test between India and the West Indies, who managed 66 for two in the curtailed opening session here on Thursday.
India removed Leon Johnson (9) and Darren Bravo (10) in before rains started lashing the Queen's Park Oval.
Kraigg Brathwaite (32) and Marlon Samuels (4) were at the crease when stumps were drawn for the day.
Earlier, the wet outfield forced a delayed start to the last match of the series, which India are leading 2-0.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (0/13) and Mohammed Shami (0-14) started off proceedings after the hosts elected to bat, half an hour past the scheduled time with the session timings adjusted accordingly.
Under overcast conditions, the two pacers got enough purchase with the new ball and squared up both batsmen on more than a couple occasions from both ends. Bhuvneshwar, in particular, continued from where he left off in St. Lucia.
And he should have had his reward, but skipper Virat Kohli dropped Brathwaite (on 4) in the third over, unable to latch on to the low one-handed catch at second slip.
Shami though was a touch wayward and it allowed the batsmen to score off him at times. It necessitated bringing Ishant Sharma (1/7) into the attack, and he delivered off the very first ball.
Johnson could not keep down a short delivery in the 12th over, and lobbed it up for Rohit Sharma to complete an easy catch at short leg, diving forward.
Spin was introduced in the 13th over then, and in his very second over, R. Ashwin (1/22) slipped a beauty past Bravo (10) and knocked back his off stump.
Samuels then joined Brathwaite at the crease, and the two took the score past the 50-mark before rain came again, just 15 minutes before the lunch break.
(With agency inputs)
