MUMBAI (Reuters) ? Spinners Pragyan Ojha and Ravichandran Ashwin forced a batting collapse as West Indies were bundled out for 134 in their second innings to set India a target of 243 runs for victory on the last day of the third and final test on Saturday.
India openers Gautam Gambhir (nine) and Virender Sehwag (six) negotiated the three overs before lunch to take India to 16 for no loss at the break.
Resuming on their overnight score of 81 for two, the tourists succumbed meekly in just 95 minutes in the morning, losing their last eight wickets in 23.2 overs as Ojha (6-47) and Ashwin (4-34) ran riot.
Left-arm spinner Ojha added four more wickets to his overnight tally of two and bowled in an uninterrupted spell on the final day, extracting good turn and bounce from the Wankhede Stadium pitch.
Ashwin, who notched his maiden test century on Friday, took four wickets to add to his five-wicket haul in the first innings of the test match.
West Indies, trailing 2-0 in the series, will only have themselves to blame if they lose the match after taking a first innings lead of 108 runs.
The visiting batsmen, put under pressure by the generous turn on offer, played some atrocious shots and helped India's spinners give life to a match that had looked like ending in a draw.
Kraigg Brathwaite and first-innings centurion Darren Bravo added 61 for the third wicket, the only notable partnership in the innings, but Braithwaite's dismissal in the fifth over of the morning opened the floodgates.
West Indies lost their last eight wickets for 43 runs as Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Carlton Baugh, Ravi Rampaul and captain Darren Sammy all got out trying to play attacking shots against the Indian spinners.
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