After another tiring day on the field, Sri Lanka pushed their lead up at close of play on Day 4 in Antigua, where the visitors finished 142 runs ahead. This came after the Greaves & Hope Show from Day 3 carried deep into Day 4 with both getting a century each. West Indies still folded 50 short of Sri Lanka's total, as Asitha Fernando finished with a fifer. Shamar Joseph then removed first-innings centurion Lahiru Udara for a four-ball duck, while his opening partner Nishan Madushka fell to Alzarri Joseph before Dinesh Chandimal and Kamindu Mendis came together to steady the innings. They took Sri Lanka to 92/2 at stumps.

If Day 3 was about kick-starting the fightback, Day 4 went into consolidating that for Justin Greaves and Shai Hope. With the onus on Sri Lanka to force open the game, they were once more in no hurry to add runs, but they did pile it on over time. Soon enough, Hope reached his fifth Test ton - and first at home, while Greaves scored his third Test hundred.

Just in the lead-up to Lunch however, the stand was broken in rather unusual manner. He let a tossed up leg side delivery ball go to the keeper, who didn't collect it. Hope was out of the crease just as the ball ricocheted off the keeper's gloves onto the wickets. That ended a 242-run partnership that ran for 76.1 overs. Greaves then forwarded West Indies' cause in the company of Roston Chase, who was peppered with a lot of short-pitched bowling from Asitha Fernando.

Eventually, Chase nicked a bouncer from Fernando. His hostile spell of bowling also consumed two more batters - Anderson Phillip and Shamar. Milan Ratnayake benefitted from the ploy too, dismissing Alzarri. West Indies went from 438/5 to 499 all-out, even as Greaves finished with a 180.

Shamar and Jayden Seales then bowled a fiery opening spell that saw Sri Lanka lose their openers. Udara fell as early as the second over, trapped leg before by Shamar while Alzarri took out Madushka to leave Sri Lanka at 32/2. That second wicket brought Kamindu Mendis to the middle, who soon began to take his chances. His unbeaten 30 off just 35 balls included three fours and a six while Chandimal finished on 40* off 66. Their stand - worth 60 runs - gave Sri Lanka some of the control again but they have a race against time with only one day left and a Test to win to salvage a drawn series, and gain crucial WTC points.

Brief Scores: Sri Lanka 549/9 decl. & 92/2 (Dinesh Chandimal 40*, Kamindu Mendis 30*; Shamar Joseph 1-27) lead West Indies 499 (Justin Greaves 180, Shai Hope 112; Asitha Fernando 5-130) by 142 runs.