Dominica: Team India dominated the Day 1 of the first Test against West Indies as Ravichandran Ashwin's five-fer and Ravindra Jadeja's three-fer packed off the Caribbean for a paltry 150, despite a valiant 47 by debutant Alick Athanaze.
India's debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal (40*) and captain Rohit Sharma (30*) reduced the deficit by 70 runs with an unbeaten partnership of 80 runs for the first wicket.
Yashasvi replaced Shubman Gill at the opening spot, with the latter being shifted to third position.
Skipper Rohit Sharma had revealed that Shubman went to coach Rahul Dravid himself with the no.3 request, insisting that he had played a majority of his cricketing career in that role.
Now, a video of Shubman Gill breaking into a dance while fielding is going viral on social media. The Gujarat Titans opener, who won the IPL 2023 Orange Cap, looked in jolly mood as the Windies innings was drawing to a close.
Earlier, the West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite won the toss and opted to bat in Dominica.
Mohammad Siraj and Jaydev Unadkat could not cause much damage while the Windies openers Kraigg Brathwaite and Tagenarine Chanderpaul survived close to an hour before Ashwin sent them back. Chanderpaul was cleaned up trying to defend a drifter, and Brathwaite was caught trying to slog.
Jermaine Blackwood survived an India's DRS call for a leg before shout in Ashwin's over.
Raymon Reifer fished Shardul Thakur outside the off stump, nicking to debutant Ishan Kishan who held on to his first Test catch as a wicketkeeper.
Jadeja scalped Blackwood just at the stroke of lunch break, thanks to a stunning catch by Siraj.
Thakur rapped Joshua Da Silva and opted for DRS, but the decision went in the batsman's favour.
The wicketkeeper-batsman however walked back to the hut pretty soon as he nicked Jadeja's ball close to his body.
Athanaze and Holder tried to steady the innings, with the former exhibiting some stylish shots in the mould of Brian Lara and slog-sweeping for a six, though Ashwin was getting more turn in the second session.
Siraj broke the partnership by getting Holder with a short ball. Ashwin then picked up his 700th international wicket by snapping up Joseph and his fourth of the match after getting Athanaze.
Cornwall banged a couple of boundaries off Ashwin soon after tea, while Roach gave company for a brief period. Roach became Jadeja's third victim as he was trapped leg-before after India reversed the not-out decision by going for the DRS.
Warrican became Ashwin's fifth wicket, lobbing a bat-pad catch to Shubman Gill, with third umpire Marais Erasmus as convinced of a clean catch.