1st ODI, Port of Spain : India tour of West Indies

230 - 3

35.4
Motie to Shreyas Iyer, Full on the stumps, pushed back to the bowler.

Shreyas Iyer c Pooran b Moti-Kanhai 54 (56b 5x4 2x6) SR: 96.42

248 - 4

38.4
Hosein to Yadav, Chopped on! tried the cut, but it did not bounce as much
Hosein points to the heavens after getting his man.

Suryakumar Yadav b Hosein 13 (14b 2x4 0x6) SR: 92.85

252 - 5

42.2
Shepherd to Samson, Length ball beats the flick and hits the pad
appeal for an LBW is upheld. Nothing on UltraEdge. It's Umpire' call

Sanju Samson lbw b Shepherd 12 (18b 0x4 1x6) SR: 66.66

38.6
Hosein to Hooda, 1 run Dropped at deep square leg by Motie!
There's blood and the physio comes out to check.
Lunged forward on one leg but the ball popped out.

South Africa, like W.I., also chose to FIELD

England 80 - 5
India 251 - 5

299 - 7

48.6
Joseph to Hooda, Going full works for Joseph again! Try to swing through to long-on but he couldn't get it. The ball rattled the furniture.

Deepak Hooda b Joseph 27 (32b 1x4 1x6) SR: 84.37

48.3
Joseph to Axar Patel, Cleans him up with a full ball! This came at full pace
It missed the bat, took the pad and went on to the stumps.

Axar Patel b Joseph 21

The importance of a set batsman playing through the end is clearly seen here. Scoring runs and playing through the end will actually show the depth of batting, or else such situations where top order getting runs but not being there till the end can drop the run rate.

Shubman Gill: Was a good wicket to bat on and I enjoyed batting on it, obviously disappointed to get run out but it's been a good experience. We posted a good total and hopefully we will be on the winning side. The wicket is pretty good, the ball started to grip after 20-25 overs for the spinners and spin is going to be crucial for us as well.

India end with 308. They threatened to go past 350 once but have to settle with 308. Windies fought back in the second half of the innings and picked up wickets to peg back India. Dhawan and Gill though gave India a great start after they were put into bat. Iyer also contributed with a fifty but post that the going got tough. The wicket is good to bat on but you need to spend some time on it

WI 12/0 (4

WI 27/1 (7.2)