GROS-ISLET, SAINT LUCIA: Kraigg Brathwaite's resistance and greater harsh climate guaranteed a draw on the last day of the second Test between the West Indies and Sri Lanka at the Darren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia on Monday.On multi day when their commander, Dinesh Chandimal, who has been charged by umpires Aleem Dar and Ian Gould with ball altering on the second day of the match, is probably going to know his destiny, the voyagers remained concentrated on occasions on the field in decreasing the home side to 64 for four in early evening subsequent to setting the West Indies a far-fetched triumph focus of 296.
Anyway Brathwaite's headstrong, unbeaten 59, with help from Shai Hope and chief Jason Holder guaranteed that the showers which came in the last session, combined with falling apart light, killed the Sri Lankans' odds of leveling the arrangement.
Shannon Gabriel took the last two wickets of the Sri Lankan second innings close to the beginning of play to complete with the remarkable innings examination of eight for 62 and coordinate figures of 13 for 121, the third-best by a West Indian in Tests and the best-ever by a Caribbean bowler in home conditions.
When he wrapped up the Sri Lankan innings for 342 by knocking down some pins Akila Dananjaya, Gabriel additionally achieved the point of interest of 100 Test wickets.
Kasun Rajitha, the debutant quick medium bowler who asserted three wickets in the primary innings, shook the West Indies with the wickets of Devon Smith and Kieran Powell inside the space of three conveyances toward the beginning of the last innings of the match.
Senior seamer Suranga Lakmal represented Roston Chase and Hope yet time ran out on the endeavoring Sri Lankans and they were left baffled by the climate, which by and by shut in amid the last session and abandons them trailing in the arrangement in front of the last Test in Barbados, starting on Saturday.
It will be a notable event at Kensington Oval as the primary day/night Test to be played in the Caribbean and will likewise be beginning on the 90th commemoration of the West Indies' first day of Test cricket against England at Lord's in London on June 23, 1928.
However it is very conceivable that Chandimal might be an onlooker to all that history on the off chance that he is discovered blameworthy of ball altering.
While he has tested the charge, coordinate official Javagal Srinath will be required to mediate in a hearing quickly upon the finish of the match to make a last assurance on the Sri Lankan's captain's destiny.
Proof to be displayed against Chandimal will incorporate video film from the TV telecasters which seem to demonstrate him taking desserts from his pocket and setting them in his mouth and in this manner applying salivation onto the ball in a way that the umpires resolved to be infringing upon the set of accepted rules controls in connection to "changing the state of the ball."
There were worries that the Test coordinate was in peril on the third morning on Saturday when Chandimal declined to lead his group onto the field for the continuation of the West Indies first innings after he was educated of the charge by the umpires and the use of a five-run punishment.
Play was deferred for two hours as enlivened discourses occurred including Srinath and Sri Lankan group authorities.
It required freedom from Sri Lanka Cricket experts in Colombo to clear the group to proceed with the match under challenge. SLC additionally issued an announcement saying they were fulfilled their players were not engaged with any bad behavior, in light of the data gave to them by the authorities on area.
Should he be discovered blameworthy however, Chandimal faces a one-Test suspension which will control him out of the last match of the arrangement.
While the International Cricket Council's cricket advisory group has prescribed an expansion to the punishment for ball altering to suspension for four Tests or eight One-Day Internationals, that still can't seem to be approved by the ICC.
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