Team India started their World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 marketing campaign in fashion towards the West Indies on Wednesday, July 12 as the house facet misplaced three wickets in the first session itself. Playing after greater than a month, Team India was on the cash from ball one after the West Indies selected to bat first. For India, the wrecker-in-chief was the veteran spinner R Ashwin, who dismissed each the West Indies openers together with skipper Kraigg Brathwaite.
Ashwin, who was taking part in for the first recreation after IPL 2023, was on hearth as after the 2 openers saved the Indian bowlers at bay, they failed to play out the guile and intelligence of the veteran spinner. Ashwin first received by way of Chanderpaul’s gate earlier than skipper Brathwaite performed a suicidal shot up in the air in the direction of covers solely to mistime it and Indian captain Rohit Sharma took a easy catch.
With the wicket of Chanderpaul, Ashwin turned the first Indian bowler in Test cricket historical past to dismiss each father and son and general fifth bowler after Ian Botham, Wasim Akram, Mitchell Starc and Simon Harmer.
Bowlers to dismiss each father and son in Tests
Ian Botham – Lance and Chris Cairns
Wasim Akram – Lance and Chris Cairns
Mitchell Starc – Shivnarine and Tagenarine Chanderpaul
Simon Harmer – Shivnarine and Tagenarine Chanderpaul
R Ashwin – Shivnarine and Tagenarine Chanderpaul
The West Indies batters simply did not have many solutions for the Indian bowlers as they saved shedding wickets. The second it appeared like a batter was going to play for a while, he would give his wicket away. After dismissing the openers early, the golden arm of Shardul Thakur struck for the first time getting Raymon Reifer out cheaply as Ishan Kishan claimed his first catch in Tests on debut.
It appeared like Jermaine Blackwood and Alick Athanaze would take West Indies by way of to lunch with none extra hiccups, however Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Siraj with a superman effort mixed to dismiss Blackwood simply earlier than lunch.
