IND vs WI 2nd Test Day 1 Live Score: West Indies win the toss and opt to bowl first in Trinidad, 500th international match for Virat Kohli
India vs West Indies 2nd Test Day 1 Live Score Streaming and Updates: Here are the two squads
India Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, Ishan Kishan(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Mohammed Siraj, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Srikar Bharat, Axar Patel, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar
West Indies Squad: Kraigg Brathwaite(c), Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Jermaine Blackwood, Alick Athanaze, Joshua Da Silva(w), Jason Holder, Alzarri Joseph, Rahkeem Cornwall, Kemar Roach, Jomel Warrican, Shannon Gabriel, Kirk McKenzie, Kevin Sinclair
How overspin makes R Ashwin more effective
India vs West Indies: Live: Ravichandran Ashwin bowls against West Indies. (AP Photo)
R Ashwin had the air of a man who has endured one too many swings of misfortune, despite having more than 700 international wickets; somehow the off-spinner has always been on the chopping board. One of the most cliche adages in cricket is “let the bat do the talking.” It’s a batsman game, afterall but in Ashwin’s case, it is different, he has always let his bowling do the talking.
Ashwin, ranked No 1 in the world, couldn’t find a place in the playing XI for last month’s World Test Championship (WTC) final against Australia. He spoke at length about how he felt about the omission and why he was also prepared for not playing in the final.
But the master spinner has started the next WTC cycle in style, picking up 12 wickets in the first Test against West Indies, who looked like a club-level team. The West Indies batsmen are definitely not at the level of Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja, and Travis Head, and it would be unfair to extrapolate that having Ashwin at The Oval would have brought a different result. But the off-spinner displayed all the wares at his disposal to prove that he can make a positive difference to any attack. (READ MORE)
