West Indies were a touch fortunate to have completed the business in just 8.3 overs. Heavy showers followed the presentation ceremony, so if India had batted for another 40 minutes, they would have saved the Test. There was another dodgy umpiring decision from Russell Tiffin, in the short time we had today. The elite panel of umpires has made a number of mistakes in this series. If things continue like this, I expect to see some promotions and demotions in this panel.

It's good to see West Indies win a series after a long time. Carl Hooper marshaled his troops reasonably well, and he must be relieved to finally end up on the winning side. His tactics were a touch negative at times, but one can understand his conservative approach, considering that he has lost many games as a captain. Hooper will be extremely pleased with this series triumph, even though it has come at home.

I still feel that this West Indies team lack quality bowlers. Their batting is brilliant, but the bowling department needs to be improved. The biggest positive from this series is that the team has done well without big contributions from Brian Lara. West Indies now seem to have the right blend of players, but their real test will come playing abroad.

This series will give West Indies a lot of confidence for the one-day games. They seemed to have picked a pretty good squad. Adam Sanford bowled well in this series, but he still has a lot of work to do to get selected in the one-day squad. I'm surprised that Ricardo Powell has been left out. His career is being ruined by our selection policy.

West Indies showed tremendous character in this series, and it was a magnificent effort to win from 1-0 down. That was the main difference between the two sides

Michael Holding, a key member of the West Indies pace quartet of the 1970s and '80s, contributed the Wisden Verdict for all the Tests in this series. He was talking to Dhruv Mullick.

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Day 1 Verdict Hinds showed his quality
Day 2 Verdict It could have been better
Day 3 Verdict Getting better all the time
Day 4 Verdict Gelling as a team

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