BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — West Indies A came alive in a spectacular last hour to gain the upper hand over India ‘A’ at the close of the third day of the first four-day ‘Test’ match yesterday.

Fast bowlers Jason Holder and Delorn Johnson bowled with pace and extracted sideways movement as they ripped out three wickets in the final session to set up an enthralling final day today.

India ‘A’, chasing 186 for victory, limped to 22-3 on a good batting surface and will enter the final day at Kensington Oval needing another 164 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

Holder, the six-foot-seveninch pacer, operated from the Joel Garner End and has so far claimed 2-12 off five overs.

Johnson, the six-foot-fiveinch left-armer, steamed in from the Malcolm Marshall End at the south and ended the day with 1-9 off five overs.

Holder produced a superb out-swinger to Abhinav Mukund which the edged to Jonathan Carter at third slip for his second “duck” of the match. In the next over, he uprooted the off stump of Ajinkya Rahane as the batsman offered no stroke.

Johnson then went around the wicket and produced an almost unplayable out-swinger which nightwatchman Rahul Sharma edged to second slip for Nkrumah Bonner to come up with a good, low catch to his left.

Captain Cheteshwar Pujara is yet to score and survived a torrid 21 minutes when he was twice struck on the hand by lifting deliveries from Johnson. The other not out batsman is attacking left-hander Shikhar Dhawan on 13.

Earlier in the day, West Indies A suffered a batting collapse as they were all out for 210 in the second innings after resuming on 3-0.

The Windies were coasting at 134-2 in the afternoon session, but then lost their last eight wickets for just 86 runs in the space of two hours as the game took a huge momentum shift. Six West Indies batsmen were leg-before wicket and the other four bowled.

The unlikely bowling hero and chief destroyer for India was off-spinner Rohit Sharma, who had career-best figures of 4-41 from 16.3 overs.