As the tour moves to the YS Rajasekhara Reddy Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, the contest between the teams - which seemed rather expected to begin with - has acquired a more exciting taste following a couple of overexcited finishes in the lead-up to this game. A draw with the scores level in the third Test and a nail-biting finish in Cuttack, during which Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav provided an insight into the details of human behaviour under pressure, have spiced up a home season characterized by one-sided contests and poor crowds.
A high-scoring venue, teams have gone past 250 in each of the six ODI innings here - twice while chasing effectively. Indian top order will not want to fall victim to the "soft dismissals" that their captain Virender Sehwag criticized them for after the Cuttack game. Even more so for West Indies. They were troubled by India's seamers in Cuttack, but are now at a venue where the bowlers' skills and variations have been of partial value in past games.
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A high-scoring venue, teams have gone past 250 in each of the six ODI innings here - twice while chasing effectively. Indian top order will not want to fall victim to the "soft dismissals" that their captain Virender Sehwag criticized them for after the Cuttack game. Even more so for West Indies. They were troubled by India's seamers in Cuttack, but are now at a venue where the bowlers' skills and variations have been of partial value in past games.
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