India win Test series in West Indies after second batting collapse

India clinched a 2-0 Test series win in the West Indies after the home side suffered a second startling batting collapse on successive days to fall to a 237-run defeat.

Having been set 346 for victory by a generous-enough morning declaration in St Lucia, the West Indies were bowled out for a paltry 108 just a day after their first innings had slumped from 202-3 to 225 all out.

India started the day on 157-3 and added a further 60 runs in only nine overs before being called in by captain Virat Kohli.

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Ajinkya Rahane ended unbeaten on 78 and was the only batsman seemingly able to cope with Windies paceman Miguel Cummins, who took all four wickets to fall in his five overs to end with fantastic figures of 6-48.

But any hopes home fans had of victory, or even an exciting finish dissolved inside five overs of the West Indies beginning their second innings.

The impressive Mohammed Shami (3-15) dismissed Leon Johnson for a duck Bhuvneshwar Kumar trapped Kraigg Brathwaite in front to leave them in a deep hole on 4-2.

An all-too brief rally came in a 31-run stand between Darren Bravo and Marlon Samuels, who made 12 before Ishant Sharma (2-30) castled him, and after Sharma also bowled Roston Chase for 10 things went downhill rapidly.

Bravo made a top-score of 59 before becoming the eighth wicket to fall and a brief rally from No 11 Shannon Gabriel, who was the only other West Indies batsman to reach double figures, was only enough to take their innings past 100.

When Gabriel was dismissed by Ravindra Jadeja (2-20) for 10 the game was over, with India taking a wide-margin victory and an unassailable 2-0 lead with one Test remaining, which gets underway in Port of Spain on Thursday.

"The credit goes to the whole squad, the way they have responded to the challenges," Kohli said at the presentation ceremony. "We always aim to win matches, win series, especially away from India, and this has been a very good start."