Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin finished with a 12-wicket match haul as India handed the West Indies a crushing innings and 141 run defeat inside three days of the first Test at Windsor Park in Roseau on Friday. Ashwin had claimed 5-60 to help skittle out West Indies for 150 in the first innings on a slow, turning track in the first match of the two-Test series. Having conceded a lead of 271, West Indies did even worse in their second innings when they were bundled out for 130. "On that pitch, we knew we wanted to bat once, bat long." Tagenarine Chanderpaul's was the first wicket to fall, succumbing lbw to Ravindra Jadeja with the score on eight before Ashwin secured his first victim of the second innings 14 runs later when home captain Kraigg Brathwaite was caught by Ajinkya Rahane.

Source: bd News24 July 15, 2023 10:16 UTC