Analysis

Virender Sehwag has ensured that India haven't felt the absence of a second specialist spinner so far in the St Lucia Test

When India were batting the pitch looked quite placid, but Munaf Patel showed just how to bowl on it

The first day of the second Test was mostly about one outstanding individual performance: Virender Sehwag destroyed the West Indian attack with his magnificent 180 which put India on course for a huge first-innings total

A comparison of Chris Gayle's half-centuries at Antigua

Bradshaw bowled 40 overs in the second innings and 25 of them on the trot on the fourth day, beginning before lunch and ending after tea

Edwards had a short-leg and leg-slip in place and angled the ball into Sehwag's ribs - a form of bodyline - and had Sehwag hopping all over the place in extreme discomfort

The Indian bowlers allowed Gayle to free his arms by bowling too wide or too full, and because of their inexperience they couldn't find an alternative strategy to control him

The West Indians didn't blow India away with devastating pace, nor did they deceive them with guile and swing. Instead, they kept plugging away in the channel outside off stump and India kept edging at regular intervals

A lowdown on Antigua, the venue of the first Test between West Indies and India

A lowdown on Trent Bridge, the venue of the third Test between England and Sri Lanka

While West Indies had a plan for each Indian player, the Indians adhered to a predictable pattern

Four batsmen scored fifties in the fifth ODI at Trinidad, and the factor that won the game for West Indies was that they had three of them, whereas India had only Virender Sehwag

Lara scored 53 runs off 63 balls against spin and only 16 runs off 37 balls against the fast bowlers. At every opportunity, Lara used his feet to smother the spin and bounce

A lowdown on Edgbaston, the venue for the second Test between England and Sri Lanka

From a batting point of view, West Indies and India were uncannily similar. Both teams lost early wickets; both had fifth wicket partnerships of over fifty; both teams had top-scorers in the nineties

There were two lead stars in the first one-day international between India and West Indies and once their roles ended the plots unravelled fast

West Indies hold a 46-30 advantage in all ODIs, but one look at the current form and you'd have to put your money on India to triumph in the five-match series which starts on Thursday

a few notable statistical achievements from the Lord's Test, which Sri Lanka saved with an incredible second-innings performance

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on the state of affairs at Sabina Park and its readiness to host the World Cup matches

What went wrong for Sri Lanka on the first day at Lord's