NEW DELHI (AP) — India reached 63-1 on day four of the second test against West Indies, leaving it just 58 runs from a 2-0 series win.
Lokesh Rahul was 25 not out and Sai Sudharsan unbeaten on 30 from 47 balls, with five fours, at stumps.
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India's KL Rahul sits on the ground after West Indies' Jayden Seales delivery hits him on the fourth day of the second cricket test match between India and West Indies at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct.13, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
West Indies' John Campbell celebrates after scoring a century on the fourth day of the second cricket test match between India and West Indies at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct.13, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
India's Ravindra Jadeja, left, celebrates the dismissal of West Indies' John Campbell with his teammates on the fourth day of the second cricket test match between India and West Indies at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct.13, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
West Indies' John Campbell walks off the field after losing his wicket on the fourth day of the second cricket test match between India and West Indies at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct.13, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Yashasvi Jaiswal, who scored 175 in the first innings, was out for eight after India was set 121 for victory. There was an option to extend play by 30 minutes if India got close to winning, it wasn't needed.
Shai Hope struck his first test century in eight years to help West Indies score 390 runs (118.5 overs) in its second innings.
John Campbell (115) had also scored his first test hundred, while a 79-run stand for the last wicket pushed India’s pursuit of victory to day five.
West Indies had scored 248 runs in its first innings, in reply to India’s 518-5d, thus surrendering a first innings’ lead of 270 runs.
In the morning session, Campbell notched things up to keep West Indies fighting.
His previous best was 68 against New Zealand in 2020, and he put on 177 runs with Hope as West Indies reduced the deficit to 18 runs at lunch – 252-3.
Campbell was out lbw to Ravindra Jadeja (1-102) prior to the lunch break. Mohammed Siraj then bowled Hope to trigger a West Indies’ collapse. Hope was out for 103 off 214 balls, including 12 fours and two sixes.
At the other end, Kuldeep Yadav picked up three quick wickets – trapping Tevin Imlach lbw for 12 then dismissing Roston Chase (40) and Khary Pierre (0) in the same over - as West Indies slipped to 298-7. Yadav finished with eight wickets.
West Indies went to tea at 361-9 after a 30-minute extension. Justin Greaves (50) and Jaydon Seales (32) then frustrated the tired Indian bowlers and fielders for 22 overs before Jasprit Bumrah (3-44) wrapped up the innings.
It was only the fourth time since 1961 that India was forced to bat again in a test after enforcing the follow-on.
West Indies has not beaten India in their last 26 tests — home or away — dating to 2002.
India won the first test in Ahmedabad by an innings and 40 runs.
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India's KL Rahul sits on the ground after West Indies' Jayden Seales delivery hits him on the fourth day of the second cricket test match between India and West Indies at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct.13, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
West Indies' John Campbell celebrates after scoring a century on the fourth day of the second cricket test match between India and West Indies at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct.13, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
India's Ravindra Jadeja, left, celebrates the dismissal of West Indies' John Campbell with his teammates on the fourth day of the second cricket test match between India and West Indies at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct.13, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
West Indies' John Campbell walks off the field after losing his wicket on the fourth day of the second cricket test match between India and West Indies at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct.13, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sylvester Stallone, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor are among the luminaries being celebrated Sunday at the annual Kennedy Center Honors, with Donald Trump hosting the show, the first time a president will command the stage instead of sitting in an Opera House box.
Since returning to office in January, Trump has made the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is named after a Democratic predecessor, a touchstone in a broader attack against what he has lambasted as “woke” anti-American culture.
Trump said in August that he had agreed to host the show. The Republican president said Saturday at a State Department dinner for the honorees that he was doing so “at the request of a certain television network.” He predicted that the broadcast, scheduled to air Dec. 23 on CBS and Paramount+, would have its best ratings ever.
“It’s going to be something that I believe, and I’m going to make a prediction: This will be the highest-rated show that they’ve ever done and they’ve gotten some pretty good ratings, but there’s nothing like what’s going to happen" on Sunday night, Trump said.
Trump is assuming a role that has been held in the past by journalist Walter Cronkite and comedian and Trump nemesis Stephen Colbert, among others. Before Trump, presidents watched the show alongside the honorees. Trump skipped the honors altogether during his first term.
Since 1978, the honors have recognized stars for their influence on American culture and the arts. Members of this year's class are pop-culture standouts, including Stallone for his “Rocky” and “Rambo” movies, Gaynor for her feminist anthem “I Will Survive” and Kiss for its flashy, cartoonish makeup and onstage displays of smoke and fire. Country music superstar George Strait and Tony Award-winning actor Michael Crawford are also being honored.
The ceremony is expected to be emotional for the members of Kiss. The band’s original lead guitarist, Ace Frehley, died in October after he was injured during a fall. The band's co-founder Gene Simmons, speaking on the red carpet when he and the other honorees arrived for the ceremony, said the president had assured him there would be an empty chair among the members of Kiss in memory of Frehley.
Crawford called it “a beautiful honor” and said, “It’s humbling, especially at the end of a career.”
Mike Farris, an award-winning gospel singer who is performing for Gaynor, said she is a dear friend. “She truly did survive,” Farris said on the red carpet. "What an iconic song.”
Previous honorees have come from a broad range of art forms, whether dance (Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham), theater (Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber), movies (Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks) or music (Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell).
Trump upended decades of bipartisan support for the center by ousting its leadership and stacking the board of trustees with Republican supporters, who then elected him chair. He has criticized the center’s programming and the building’s appearance — and has said, perhaps jokingly, that he would rename it as the “Trump Kennedy Center.” He secured more than $250 million from Congress for renovations of the building.
Presidents of each political party have at times found themselves face to face with artists of opposing political views. Republican Ronald Reagan was there for honoree Arthur Miller, a playwright who championed liberal causes. Democrat Bill Clinton, who had signed an assault weapons ban into law, marked the honors for Charlton Heston, an actor and gun rights advocate.
During Trump’s first term, multiple honorees were openly critical of the president. In 2017, Trump’s first year in office, honors recipient and film producer Norman Lear threatened to boycott his own ceremony if Trump attended. Trump stayed away during that entire term.
Trump has said he was deeply involved in choosing the 2025 honorees and turned down some recommendations because they were “too woke." While Stallone is one of Trump's Hollywood ”special ambassadors" and has likened Trump to George Washington, the political views of Sunday's other guests are less clear.
Strait and Gaynor have said little about their politics, although Federal Election Commission records show that Gaynor has given money to Republican organizations in recent years.
Kiss co-founder Gene Simmons spoke favorably of Trump when Trump ran for president in 2016. But in 2022, Simmons told Spin magazine that Trump was “out for himself” and criticized Trump for encouraging conspiracy theories and public expressions of racism.
Fellow Kiss member Paul Stanley denounced Trump's effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden, and said Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were “terrorists.” But after Trump won in 2024, Stanley urged unity.
“If your candidate lost, it’s time to learn from it, accept it and try to understand why,” Stanley wrote on X. "If your candidate won, it’s time to understand that those who don’t share your views also believe they are right and love this country as much as you do.”
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Italie reported from New York.
2025 Kennedy Center Honoree George Strait, center left, and his family arrive on the red carpet for the 48th Kennedy Center Honors Medallion Reception, hosted at the U.S. Department of State, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
2025 Kennedy Center Honoree Michael Crawford, center, and his family arrive on the red carpet for the 48th Kennedy Center Honors Medallion Reception, hosted at the U.S. Department of State, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
President Donald Trump, left, speaks as he presents Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, KISS, Gloria Gaynor and Michael Crawford with their Kennedy Center Honors medals in the Oval Office of the White House, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
The 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees, front row from left, Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor and Michael Crawford; back row from left, members of the rock band KISS, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Peter Criss, pose for a group photo at the 48th Kennedy Center Honors Medallion Reception, hosted at the U.S. Department of State, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
