India vs West Indies, 4th Test Day 4: Day’s play has been called due to wet outfield

As it happened

2000 hrs IST: Fourth day’s play has been called off by a wet outfield

1955 hrs IST: It’s difficult to start the play today as well… The outfield is causing all the damage to the sport at the moment in Port of Spain

1930 hrs IST: Meanwhile skipper Virat Kohli shows his frustration of not playing for a while in a different way

When you are waiting at the hotel & getting bored. Rains are annoying when a match is going on #TestOfPatience pic.twitter.com/vkJc4nCO4V

— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) 21 August 2016

1915 hrs IST:  Start of day’s play has been delayed by a wet outfield

Update: No rain on fourth day but the start of play has been delayed again due to wet patches on the outfield. pic.twitter.com/hBqJKtsM91

— BCCI (@BCCI) 21 August 2016

BUILD UP

Soggy outfield dents India’s 3-0, World No 1 ranking hopes

Third umpire Gregory Brathwaite and a couple of other groundsmen with the tip of their fingers pressed hard at a dishevelled mound that had been flattened by the gargantuan mechanised roller. It seemed quite pudgy, like when you dip your hands into the pudding. Immediately came another groundsman with a blower hung on his back and began blowing it on the mowed down surface. Their ploy was working and it was time to repeat the roller-blower routine. But just as an over-eager groundsman had mounted on the roller, the skies opened up and he immediately dismounted it to help his fellow groundsmen pull the tarpaulin over the surface.

What’s eating Darren Bravo?

On Thursday, a few minutes before a thunderous spell of rain was to wash away one and half days of play, Darren Bravo stood static on his follow through, watching the ball roll across the turf and jump over the rope at long-on. This was his first boundary of the innings. A ball later, Ravichandran Ashwin tried to lure him with flight. The ball gently looped in the air, but before it could even land, it was met with a fierce swing of Bravo’s forearms, his willow launching the ball over a bewildered mid-on’s head.