India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test Day 1: Play resumes after rain delay; Jaiswal, Rahul hand IND cautious startCrickit

India vs West Indies Highlights, 1st Test Match: KL Rahul’s 53* put India in control on Day 1 of the first Test match vs West Indies, in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Rahul’s fifty was key as India reached 121/2 in 38 overs and trail by 41 runs. Rahul remained unbeaten at 53* off 114 balls, including six fours. Meanwhile, Yashasvi Jaiswal lost his wicket in the final session, registering 36 off 54 deliveries. After West Indies were bowled out for 162, India got off to a cautious start and reached 23/0 in 12.4 overs until rain arrived. India dominated the West Indian batting, not taking too long to end their innings by bowling out the visitors for 162. Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah made quick work of the top order, with Siraj snapping up four wickets, before Jasprit Bumrah returned to clean up the tail. Kuldeep Yadav also contributes a brace of wickets on his return to the Test team.…Read More

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General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: STUMPS!

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Last over of the day coming up! Warrican with the ball. A streak of dots and its a maiden! STUMPS!

IND: 121/2 (38), trail by 41 runs

WI: 162 (first innings)

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Rahul and Gill in control

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: 3 conceded in the 35th over. Rahul (51*) and Gill (16*) are in control here. Doesn’t look like they will lose their wickets today!

IND: 117/2 (35), trail by 45 runs

WI: 162 (first innings)

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: FIFTY FOR RAHUL!

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Rahul takes the single and gets to fifty! A full ball by Chase and he taps it to mid-on for one run. HALF-CENTURY!

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: WHAT A SHOT! RAHUL IS IN GOOD FORM!

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: A length delivery by Chase and Rahul is fast here! Goes on the back foot quickly and slams it through the empty cover region for a four! SHOT!

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Gill brings up India’s 100

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Gill brings up the 100 for India! Smacks Pierre for a four to the empty deep midwicket area! India get to 103/2.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: IND – 95/2 (27), trail by 66 runs

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: 3 runs from the 27th over. Rahul (41*) is closing on his fifty and Gill (4*) will look to avoid losing his wicket. Sudharsan was the last wicket lost.

IND: 95/2 (27), trail by 66 runs

WI: 162 (first innings)

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Chase removes Sudharsan

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: OUT!!!! Sudharsan doesn’t judge Chase’s delivery well, and pulls, but misses. It hits the back leg in front of the stumps! No review needed!

Sudharsan lbw b Chase 7 (19)

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: IND – 83/1 (22), trail by 79 runs

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: India have 83/1 in 22 overs. Rahul (39*) is taking on the bowlers and Sudharsan (5*) has just begun. India lost Jaiswal in the final session!

IND: 83/1 (22), trail by 79 runs

WI: 162 (first innings)

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Another four for Rahul!

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Down the track and drilled nicely for a four! Rahul attacks Pierre and drives him to long on!

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Seales removes Jaiswal!

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: The Ahmedabad crowd has been silenced!!! A short of length delivery by Seales, and Jaiswal cuts it, but ends up edging it behind for an easy catch!

Jaiswal c Hope b Seales 36 (54)

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Rahul takes on Seales

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: A short of length delivery by Seales, outside off. Rahul hammers it wide of backward point for a four! SHOT! Seales responds with back-to-back dots, and then Rahul again hits him for a four, cuts it wide of gully. Ends the over with two dots.

IND: 59/0 (17), trail by 103 runs

WI: 162 (first innings)

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Back-to-back fours for Jaiswal!

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: A full delivery by Greaves, on off. Jaiswal drives it wide of mid-on for a four! Makes it back-to-back, with another four, past gully!

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Match resumes

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Play has resumed as Jaiswal and Rahul, both walk out to resume batting!

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: The umpires are having a chat

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: The umpires are out and having a chat. Play will resume soon!

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Rain stops play

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: The covers are coming on! The players leave as rain stops play! A short delay expected!

IND: 23/0 (12.4), trail by 139 runs

WI: 162 (first innings)

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Slow and steady by Jaiswal, Rahul

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Maiden over for Greaves in the 11th. Jaiswal (4*) and Rahul (18*) are going slow and steady here for India.

IND: 23/0 (11), trail by 139 runs

WI: 162 (first innings)

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: 19/0 after 9

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Greaves comes on to bowl after Seales’ great opening burst. A little more comfortable for Jaiswal, but he nevertheless sees out a maiden. A couple of shots are around the corner, you feel.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Four more for Rahul! 14/0 after 6

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: It has been a very watchful start – Jaiswal not off the mark 11 deliveries into his innings. But it is Rahul seeing most of the bowling. Gets a slightly shorter one and this time rocks back to punch it past backward point.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: First boundary! Played late through the slips

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Rahul makes use of the pace Seales is giving him to guide one past gully. A little bit of an edge, but played with an open face and soft hands. Four down to that boundary.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Seales looking threatening early

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Good bowling from Seales, hitting a very good length early to earn some tentative shots from both batters. Layne at the other end also has a nice, tall action, but will be looking to step up his pace.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Jaiswal sees out first over maiden

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: No runs off the first over, Jaiswal happy to take a few sighters to start off with.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal want to survive opening Windies burst

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Jayden Seales is the man who will be tasked with making early inroads into India’s batting. A man with a very impressive start to his Test career, he will share the pace battery with debutant Layne.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Kuldeep wraps things up! 162 bowled out

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Warrican tries an elaborate reverse sweep, but just gloves it through to Jurel to finish the innings! Kuldeep’s second wicket in just 6.1 overs of work, and an early tea called, after which India will return to try and see out day’s play.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: 5th wicket evading Siraj

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: The last wicket partnership not falling just yet, some solid batting from this final pair just to stave off Bumrah and Siraj.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: And again from Bumrah! Full and straight, stumps knocked over

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Too good! Number 10 batter in, doesn’t need to be a perfect yorker. Layne on debut, just full and straight at him, you-miss-I-hit stuff. Bumrah gets his third – India now one wicket away, but Siraj at the other end looking for a five-fer.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: BOOM BUMRAH! Perfect yorker to end Greaves’ knock!

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Unplayable! Simply nothing to be done about that. When Bumrah gets that yorker perfect, might as well start walking back already. Spears it in, Greaves has to get his foot out of the way, but the bat is never coming down in time. Cleans up his stumps emphatically!

150/8 now. Siraj back on looking for a five-fer.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: WICKET! Sundar strikes, removes Pierre

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: There’s the seventh wicket! Sundar gets to bowl at Pierre, and he is so dangerous against lefties. Can dart it in with some drift and guile, and as this one carries on with the arm, Pierre misses it as it thuds into his pads. He reviews, but in vain: that is three reds.

144/7 now. India hoping they can target this end now.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: India form a huddle during drinks break

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: A quick huddle and some words from Shubman Gill as India want to wrap this up quickly. They will want to finish the innings before the end of this session, they aren’t too far away. But this stand needs to be snapped.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: DROPPED! KL Rahul puts down Greaves at slip

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: That was the chance! Sundar bowls a really nice ball with some drift that just holds its line. Greaves stretches out and gets an edge, and it carries to Rahul, who can’t get low enough to grab hold of it. That was the chance, and knowing Rahul’s standards for himself, he won’t like that!

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Greaves going along nicely

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Impressive innings from Justin Greaves. Looking very settled, using his levers to reach the pitch and nullify the spin. Keeping the runs moving as well.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Washington Sundar into the attack

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Shubman Gill finally introduces Washington Sundar into the attack as cloudy conditions persist in Ahmedabad. Is it the right move or could Gill have brought Nitish Kumar Reddy? Khary Pierre and Justin Greaves are moving the scoreboard along slowly and steadily.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Bumrah back into the attack!

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Jasprit Bumrah is back in the attack and Justin Greaves plays it with a soft bottom hand and the ball races towards the third man for a boundary.

West Indies 132/6 in 32.1 overs

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: FOUR! Khary Pierre breaks the shackles!

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Terrific shot from Khary Pierre! He plays it late and West Indies get a much-deserved boundary. He then follows it up with a sweep shot and is rewarded with a couple of runs.

West Indies 128/6 in 32 overs.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Mohammed Siraj leaves West Indies reeling

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Siraj has left the Windies reeling and the visitors are in all sorts of bother at 121/6 in the 31st over. The right-arm pacer is nearing his sixth wicket-haul in the longest format. Siraj is continuing from where he left off in the series against England.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Kuldeep Yadav rings him up! Excellent bowling, and it’s LUNCH

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Sensational! Simply sensational. Tosses it up nicely well outside off, Hope tries to push it into the offside, but Kuldeep has found remarkable purchase off the surface to bring it a long way back and hit the off stump. How do you play that on Day 1?

Lunch called as well. 90/5 at this point. India sitting nicely on top.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Better from Windies, partnership building

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Important partnership, this. First step towards any sort of rescue as they ensure lunch approaches with no more disaster.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Experienced pair of Chase and Hope in; spin on from one end

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Finally a bowling change as Nitish Reddy comes in for Bumrah, keeping it tight. Windies will want to ensure no more damage through to lunch, but new challenge now as Ravindra Jadeja comes on.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Four down! Athanaze falls, 3 for Siraj

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Siraj goes around the wicket and gets his man! Athanaze tries to unsettle him with a big drive, but just edges it and it flies through the KL Rahu, who easily collects. Big trouble for WI.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Horror leave! Brandon King has to walk back

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Two balls telling two bery different stories! First one is pitched up so he smokes it through extra cover. Next ball Siraj pulls it back, makes it seam the other way, and Brandon King goes to leave it. Bad call. Knocks him over entirely. It’s not even off-stump that it has clipped, but the middle. Just a lapse in concentration. 39/3.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Now Bumrah strikes! Both openers gone

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: So tough to play there. Campbell pokes at one outside his off stump, and it’s a thin edge through to Jurel for a simpler catch. India had to go for DRS to get it checked, but Gill gets his decision right. 20/2 now.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Strangled down leg! Siraj strikes

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Wicket! Chanderpaul departs on a duck. It’s down leg, Chanderpaul can’t get enough on it. Good catch by Jurel down leg. Not a traditional Day 1 morning wicket, but India will take it. It’s 12/1.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: First shot of conviction! Punch down the ground for 4

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Great shot! Overpitched by Bumrah, Campbell just gives it the full face and leans into it right down the ground. That will give him confidence, he absolutely middled that one.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: 4/0 after first two, Siraj maiden

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: The radar not quite there yet for either Indian bowler, taking time to get into their rhythm. Bumrah going around the wicket early to the lefty openers.

General India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: And we are off – Bumrah with the first over

India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Here we go! Bumrah gets us going with a couple darted into the pads of John Campbell.

General India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: Two debutants for Windies, and similar makeup to India

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: Khary Pierre, at 34, makes his debut as a frontline spinner, and as does Johann Layne, an exciting seamer. Chase with his spin and Greaves with his seamers also provide extra bowling options and some batting depth.

Tagenarine Chanderpaul, John Campbell, Alick Athanaze, Brandon King, Shai Hope (wk), Roston Chase (c), Justin Greaves, Jomel Warrican, Khary Pierre, Johann Layne, Jayden Seales

General India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: Two seamers, three spinners for India – Kuldeep Yadav starts!

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: He’s in the kind of form that means you simply cannot go against picking him. He will have the support of Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar. Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj with the new ball, Nitish Kumar Reddy also an option if either need a reprieve.

Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (c), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

General India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: Roston Chase wins the toss and opts to bat!

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: So Windies trying to avoid batting last on this pitch, Roston Chase opts to bowl first. Two spinners, two seamers for them.

Want to win all 4 Tests this winter, says Shubman Gill. Two seamers, three spinners for India today – team news next.

General India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: Some rain expected in Ahmedabad today

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: The bad news is that the weather will play a role today, in all likelihood. Up to 45% chance to precipitation through the afternoon, which means there will likely be a few overs lost through the first couple of sessions. It is better news for the coming days, but this is a toss the Windies in particular will want to win and bowl under overcast conditions in.

General India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: India’s selection choices under the microscope

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: It’s pretty difficult to see quite where India will go with their lineup. There are maybe seven guaranteed starters, which means as many as four different positions are up for grabs.

Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, and Ravindra Jadeja are those who will almost certainly feature today. After that, there is competition right across the pitch.

Does Prasidh Krishna come in as a bonafide third seamer or will the extra batting of Nitish Reddy get the nod? Sai Sudharsan up the order? Devdutt Padikkal further down it? Any love for Kuldeep Yadav as he finds himself in a remarkable run of form? Axar Patel come in to try and live up to Ravichandran Ashwin, as India prepare for a first home Test match without him in 15 years? Very little certainty as these six names battle for four spots. It could really be any combination of them.

General India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: Extremely grassy surface expected in Ahmedabad

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: India want their pitches at home to start having a little variety, after NZ showed how the raging turners equalises things to an extent that India’s terrific spin options can be matched by the more pedestrian offerings of other countries. What this means is that there will be a little bit of tinkering as India try to form a new style of winning matches at home, where they want the quality of team rather than its ability on dusty surfaces to make the key difference. 4 or 5 mm of grass expected on this Ahmedabad surface, which might mean India could be tempted to take three frontline seamers into the contest…

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