INDIA VS WI 1ST TEST DAY 1

Same disaster, different day...   That's how you could sum up the West Indies' rocky start to the Test series against India in Ahmedabad...

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00:00around the world after winning the toss West Indies chose to bat against India

00:05in the opening test in Ahmedabad it's not that humid but interesting to see

00:09and the visitors made a poor start as Tej Narayan Shandipal was caught by

00:13keeper Dhruv Jurel of Mohammed Siraj for naught then his opening partner John

00:19Campbell was out for eight with Jaspreet Bumrah striking the umpire was not

00:24interested which resulted in a review being taken and that's when the dreaded

00:28finger went up yes the correct decision Siraj was on fire and removed both

00:33Brandon King and Alec Athanese cheaply second slip there was a small

00:39partnership of 48 between captain rust and chase and she hope the shot was very

00:43good Kuldeep Yadav flummoxed hope and the batsman was castled for 26 spin from

00:50outside the off stump is Foxton it got worse for the men in Maroon as Siraj had

00:54chase caught behind for 24 it was the bowler's fourth scalp to Dhruv Jurel that

00:59was an absolute Jaffa Justin Graves and debutant Carrie Pierre put on a

01:04partnership of 39 for the seventh wicket and will race away into the boundary

01:08Pierre was gone for 11 followed by Graves for 32 with Bumrah's Yorker doing the

01:13trick against the latter the pace was up he was in the 140s in that over Bumrah also

01:18disturbed the furniture of debutant Johan Lane to end with three wickets

01:22shattered once again Yadav took the last scalp to finish with two as West Indies

01:27capitulated for 162 when India responded Yashasvijaswal and the right-handed KL

01:34Rahul gave the team a good start the two put on a partnership of 68 runs for the

01:39first wicket just was struck seven boundaries in his 36 the left-handed

01:51batsman was caught behind giving Jaden seals the scalp jubilant seals there but

01:56Rahul was still around and kept on going to the delight of the home supporters

02:03Sainz Sudarshan didn't hang around too long and was out leg before to chase for

02:08seven rost and chase in his first over getting closer to stumps Rahul reached

02:13his half century with this single he would end on an unbeaten 53 without really

02:18breaking into a sweat

02:22with him as captain Shubhangil who has 18 not out as India reached 121 for two at

02:29the end of day one still 41 behind with eight wickets intact

02:33we know now I need to export