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IND vs WI 1st Test Live Cricket Score Updates: KL Rahul and Shubman Gill have been unbeaten at stumps for India on day-1 of the first Test between India and West Indies at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on Thursday. India has managed to get into a comfortable position after scoring 121/2 and trail by 41 runs.
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sai Sudharsan are the batters who have been dismissed by the West Indies. The former fell after the rain interruption to Jayden Seales’ delivery, and the latter fell prey to Roston Chase’s good-length delivery, which kept a bit low. Although he picked up just one wicket, Seales has been the pick of the bowlers for the West Indies.
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It is back to Test mode for India. The two teams have been training at the Narendra Modi Stadium, the venue for the match, in Ahmedabad for two days before the start of the match. For India, it is all about the start of a new era, with this being the first home Test in well over a decade to not feature Ravichandran Ashwin, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara, all of whom were regulars in the side that established their invincibility in India.
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That invincibility was broken in rather spectacular fashion by New Zealand late last year as they whitewashed India 3-0. The series against the West Indies is India’s first at home since that humiliating result against the Kiwis. This will also be Shubman Gill’s first series at home as India’s Test captain.
While it is also the start of a new era for a young West Indies side, they are grappling with existential questions as opposed to India’s comparitively optimistic search for replacements to past stalwarts. West Indies had been whitewashed at home by Australia in their last series, with the third Test ending with them being all out for just 27 runs.
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While the likes of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill have shown they can in the odd innings, the consistency with which Indian batsmen of the past used to take apart the spinners is not seen these days. (PTI Photo)
At the end of a 10-minute press conference where West Indies captain Roston Chase spent most of the time listing out the profiles of his teammates, he was brutal when it came to the assessment of the outside world about his own team. “Everyone is expecting us lose,” he said. It may be true in many ways, except in the case of their opponents, India. Read more from Venkata Krishna B here.
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