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We are just a few hours away from the start of the opening Test between hosts India and the West Indies in Ahmedabad.

And Windies captain Roston Chase is ready for the challenges that lies ahead, saying his troops are not intimidated despite being underdogs.

His opposite number Shubman Gill wants his team to play hard cricket as was shown by the Indians during the drawn Test series in England.
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00:00West Indies captain Roston Chase and his men face India in their own backyard in Ahmedabad come Thursday
00:05with the men in Maroon being without injured pacers Al-Zari Joseph and Shemar Joseph.
00:11The squad includes left arm spinner Kari Peer who Chase says is quite a talented player.
00:16But the question is, will Peer make his test debut?
00:19I'm a very mature guy, he's played a lot of cricket, mainly a lot of white ball cricket
00:24but he's a guy that can adapt to any form of the game.
00:28He's had a good four day season, red ball season, took the most wickets so that's why he's here
00:36so hopefully if he gets the chance to play tomorrow he can come in with an impact first up
00:41but as I said we didn't really get to see much of the pitch, just a slight luck
00:45because the rains came as we were having that luck so we're not sure as yet.
00:51Chase knows India will go into the contest as favourites.
00:55Having said that, he wants his teammates to have a positive mindset.
00:58Yeah well, going to any team's home country is going to be tough.
01:05Teams at home are always stronger, seem to be stronger at home so we're up for the challenge
01:11and test cricket is always hard so it's not something that's new to us
01:16so we're looking forward to the challenge.
01:18Chase says despite poor performances, including a 3-0 loss to Australia in the Caribbean recently,
01:24the Windies cannot be taken lightly.
01:27He believes being labelled underdogs has certain advantages.
01:30Obviously we're coming in as the underdogs, we have nothing to lose so I think that makes us quite a dangerous side
01:36when you really have nothing to lose you can just go and play freely because I mean everyone is expecting us to lose
01:44so we can just go and express ourselves and play some good cricket, you know what I mean?
01:49Just try to be free as possible and enjoy the cricket.
01:53India are coming off a successful Asia Cup where they beat Pakistan in Sunday's final.
01:58Despite having to switch from the white ball format to the red ball version,
02:02new test captain Shubman Gill feels he can make the necessary adjustments in quick time.
02:07We had I think a couple of days of practice before a test match so yes it was a quick turnaround.
02:15I was just sort of looking to work on defence and sort of trying to get in the zone I think.
02:23Switching formats is more mental than it is about technique, that's what I believe in.
02:28So I was just trying to work on getting into my zone.
02:33India started their new world test championship cycle with a 2-all draw against England.
02:39As such, Gill says that outcome gave the Indian team a boost
02:42and the lessons learnt in England can be applied against the West Indies.
02:47What the people can expect from us is good hard grinding cricket
02:50and we wouldn't be looking for any easy out options
02:54and I think we have got the skill set to be able to play on any kind of a wicket or any situation
02:59and the kind of talent that we have on the team.
03:01We can, I think, turn around from any situation so that's what we'll be looking to play.
03:07Following the Ahmedabad test, the teams then head to Delhi for Game 2 starting October 10th.
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