India Vs West Indies First Test @ Eden Gardens,Kolkata Nov 06-10,2013
Squads
India
Shikhar Dhawan,Murali Vijay,Cheteshwar Pujara,Sachin Tendulkar,Virat Kohli,Rohit Sharma,R Aswin,M S Dhoni(Captain & WK)Bhuvneshwar Kumar,Mohammed Shami and Pragyan Ojha
West Indies
Chris Gayle,Kieron Powell,Darren Bravo,Marlon Samuels,Shivnarine Chanderpaul,Denesh Ramdin(WK)Darren Sammy(Captain),Shane Shillingford ,Veerasammy Permaul,Sheldon Cottrell and Tino Best
Test Debut
Mohammed Shami and Rohit Sharma (India); Sheldon Cottrell (West Indies)
Mohammed Shami got his Test Cap from Ishant Sharma.mohammed Shami made his ODI debut against Pakistan in 2013 and since then has captured 17 wickets in 14 matches
Rohit Sharma got his Test cap fromSachin Tendulkar.Although Rohi Sharma has played in 108 ODIs since his debut in 2007, he was not considered for Tests till Wednesday Nov 06,2013
Day One -Wed Nov 06,2013
West Indies won the toss and chose to bat first
West Indies scored 234/10 in 78 Overs
Fall of Wickets(WI)
Chris Gayle 18(in 32 Balls with 4x4)
Kieron Powell 28(in 40 Balls with 4x5 and 6x1)
Marlon Samuels 65(in 98 Balls with 4x11 and 6x2)-19th Test Match Fifty
Darren Bravo 23(in 96 Balls with 4x2 and 6x1)
Denesh Ramdin 04(in 4 Balls with 4x1)
Darren Sammy 16(in 19 Balls with 4x3)
Shane Shillingford 05(in 39 Balls)
Veerasammy Permaul 14(in 27 Balls with 4x3)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 36(in 79 Balls with 4x3)
Sheldon Cottrell 00(in 4 Ball)
Tino Best 14*(in 30 Balls with 4x20
Wicket Takers(India)
Mohammed Shami 4-71(17 Overs)
R Aswin 2-52(21 Overs)
Sachin Tendulkar 1-05(2 Overs)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 1-33(14 Overs)
Pragyan Ojha 1-62(24 Overs)
Sachin Tendulkar obliges young fans with Autographs
Sachin Tendulkar walks out for his 199th Test
Sachin Tendulkar dismissed Shane Shillingford in his first over and took his 46th Test Wicket
Day Two -Thursday Nov 07,2013
Fall of Wickets(India)
Shikhar Dhawan 23(in 34 Balls with 4x4)
Murali Vijay 26(in 75 Balls with 4x2)
Cheteswar Pujara 17(in 36 Balls with 4x2)
Sachin Tendulkar 10(in 24 Balls with 4x2)
Virat Kohli 03(in 5 Balls)
M S Dhoni 42(in 63 Balls with 4x5)
At close of play on Day two,India were 354/6 in 102 Overs(Rohit Sharma 127* & R Aswin 92*)
Highlights of Day Two Thursday Nov 07,2013
Rohit Sharma took 13 deliveries to get his first runs in Test cricket, and they came via a pull to the long-leg boundary off a 145 kph short ball from fellow debutant Sheldon Cottrell
M S Dhoni(42) and Rohit Sharma(31)scored 73 Runs for the 6th wicket .The 73-run stand between Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Sharma is a record for India for the sixth wicket vs West Indies at Eden Gardens, bettering the 72 between VVS Laxman and Parthiv Patel in 2002-03
Rohit Sharma(96) and R Aswin(92) scored 198* Runs for the 7th wicket.The 198-run unbroken partnership between Sharma and Ashwin is the second highest seventh-wicket stand for India vs West Indies in India in Tests, next only to the 224 between Dhoni and Laxman at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in November 2011.
Rohit Sharma scored a century on Test Debut -100 Runs in 194 Balls with 4x12 and 6x1)and became the 14th Indian Batsman to score century on Test Debut
Rohit Sharma became the third Indian batsman to post a hundred on Test debut @ Eden Gardens - the first two being Deepak Shodhan (110 vs Pakistan in December 1952) and Mohammad Azharuddin (110 vs England in December 1984/January 1985)
Rohit Sharma's 177 Runs is the 2nd highest by an Indian batsman on debut in Tests. Shikhar Dhawan's 187 vs Australia at Mohali in March 2013 remains the highest by an Indian on Test debut.
Indian Batsman who have scored century on Test Debut
| Player | Score | Against | Venue | Year |
| Lala Amarnath | 118 | England | Mumbai | 1933 |
| Deepak Shodhan | 110 | Pakistan | Kolkata | 1952 |
| AG Kripal Singh | 100* | New Zealand | Hyderabad | 1955 |
| Abbas Ali Baig | 112 | England | Manchester | 1959 |
| Hanumant Singh | 105 | England | Delhi | 1964 |
| Gundappa Viswanath | 137 | Australia | Kanpur | 1969 |
| Surinder Amarnath | 124 | New Zealand | Auckland | 1976 |
| Mohd Azharuddin | 110 | England | Kolkata | 1984 |
| Pravin Amre | 103 | South Africa | Durban | 1992 |
| Sourav Ganguly | 131 | England | Lord's | 1996 |
| Virender Sehwag | 105 | South Africa | Bloemfontein | 2001 |
| Suresh Raina | 120 | Sri Lanka | Colombo (SSC) | 2010 |
| Shikhar Dhawan | 187 | Australia | Mohali | 2013 |
| Rohit Sharma | 177 | West Indies | Kolkata | 2013 |
Indians hitting century on Test debut
Rohit Sharma 127* vs West Indies at Kolkata, Nov 6, 2013
Shikhar Dhawan 187 vs Australia at Mohali, Mar 14, 2013
Suresh Raina 120 vs Sri Lanka at Colombo, July 26, 2010
Virender Sehwag 105 vs South Africa at Bloemfontein, Nov 3, 2001
Sourav Ganguly 131 vs England at Lord's June 20, 1996
Pravin Amre 103 vs South Africa at Durban, Nov 13, 1992
Mohammad Azharuddin 110 vs England at Kolkata, Dec 31, 1984
Surinder Amarnath 124 vs New Zealand at Auckland, Jan 24, 1976
Gundappa Viswanath 137 vs Australia at Kanpur, Nov 15, 1969
Hanumant Singh 105 vs England at Delhi, Feb 8, 1964
Abbas Ali Baig 112 vs England at Manchester, July 23, 1959
Kripal Singh 100* vs New Zealand at Hyderabad, Nov 19, 1955
RH Shodhan 110 vs Pakistan at Kolkata, Dec 12, 1952
Lala Amarnath 118 vs England at Mumbai, Dec 15, 1933
Players to hit century on Test debut at the Eden Gardens
Rohit Sharma 127* vs West Indies, Nov 6, 2013
Alviro Petersen 100 vs India, Feb 14, 2010
Mohammad Azharuddin 110 vs England , Dec 31, 1984
B Taylor 105 vs India , Mar 5, 1965
RH Shodhan 110 vs Pakistan at Kolkata, Dec 12, 1952
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India lead by 120 runs with 4 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
Day Three -Friday Nov 08,2013
Fall of Wickets(India)
Rohit Sharma 177(in 301 Balls with 4x23 and 6x1)-Century on Test Debut
R Aswin 124(in 210 Balls with 4x11)-2nd Test Ton
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 12(in 20 Balls with 4x2)
Mohammed Shami 01(in 7 Balls)
Oragyan Ojha 02*(in 6 Balls)
Wicket Takers(WI)
Shane Shillingford 6-167(55 Overs)
Veerasammy Permaul 2- 67(23.4 Overs)
Tino Best 1-71(17 Overs)
Sheldon Cottrell 1-72(18 Overs)wicket of Cheteswar Pujara being the maiden test wicket
India scored 453/10 in 129.4 Overs taking a lead of 219 Runs in the 1st Innings
Highlights of India's 1st Innings
Rohit Sharma(146) and Ravichandran Aswin(122) scored 280 Runs for the 7th wicket bettering 259 (unbroken) between VVS Laxman and Mahendra Singh Dhoni vs South Africa at Kolkata in February 2010
Fall of Wickets(WI)
Chris Gayle 33(in 35 Balls with 4x7)
Kieron Powell 36(in 83 Balls with 4x5)
Marlon Samuels 04(in 5 Balls with 4x1)
Darren Bravo 37(in 78 Balls with 4x4)
Denesh Ramdin 01(in 16 Balls)
Darren Sammy 08(in 29 Balls with 4x1)
Shane Shillingford 00(in 2 Balls)
Veerasammy Permaul 00(in 1 Ball)
Tino Best 03(in 9 Balls)
Sheldon Cottrell 05(in 7 Balls with 4x1)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 31*(in 60 Balls with 4x2)
Wicket Takers(India)
Mohammed Shami 5-47(13.1 Overs)
R Aswin 3-46(19 Overs)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 1-20(6 Overs)
Match Result - India won by an innings and 51 Runs
Player of the Match -Rohit Sharma(India)
Match Highlights
Scorecard
West Indies -234 & 168
India -453
India won by an innings and 51 Runs
MS Dhoni becomes the first Indian captain to win 25 Tests and the 11th skipper in the world to do so
India have recorded their 15th win vs West Indies (lost 30 and drawn 44 out of 89 contested) - winning % 16.85
India and West Indies have won three Tests each out of ten played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata (drawn four).
Sachin Tendulkar was felicitated by the Cricket Association of Bengal and Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the end of the match
Sachin Tendulkar did a lap of honour to thank the Eden crowd.
India, for the first time, won five Tests on-the-trot, four of them coming against the Australians
West Indies collapsed from 101 for 1 to 168 in the 2nd innings to plummet to a heavy defeat inside three days at Eden Gardens
Mohammed Shami took 9 wickets in the test match,the second best by an Indian on debut after Narendra Hirwani’s 16/136 against West Indies in Chennai in 1988
Rohit Sharma scored a century on Test Debut -100 Runs in 194 Balls with 4x12 and 6x1)and became the 14th Indian Batsman to score century on Test Debut
Indian Batsman who have scored century on Test Debut| Player | Score | Against | Venue | Year |
| Lala Amarnath | 118 | England | Mumbai | 1933 |
| Deepak Shodhan | 110 | Pakistan | Kolkata | 1952 |
| AG Kripal Singh | 100* | New Zealand | Hyderabad | 1955 |
| Abbas Ali Baig | 112 | England | Manchester | 1959 |
| Hanumant Singh | 105 | England | Delhi | 1964 |
| Gundappa Viswanath | 137 | Australia | Kanpur | 1969 |
| Surinder Amarnath | 124 | New Zealand | Auckland | 1976 |
| Mohd Azharuddin | 110 | England | Kolkata | 1984 |
| Pravin Amre | 103 | South Africa | Durban | 1992 |
| Sourav Ganguly | 131 | England | Lord's | 1996 |
| Virender Sehwag | 105 | South Africa | Bloemfontein | 2001 |
| Suresh Raina | 120 | Sri Lanka | Colombo (SSC) | 2010 |
| Shikhar Dhawan | 187 | Australia | Mohali | 2013 |
| Rohit Sharma | 177 | West Indies | Kolkata | 2013 |
Rohit Sharma became the first Indian batsman to record a hundred on Test debut against the West Indies.
Rohit Sharma, with his 177 off 301 balls, has established a record for the highest individual innings by a number six batsman on Test debut, outstripping Australia's Doug Walters' 155 off 315 balls vs England at Brisbane in December 1965
Rohit Sharma's177 Runs is the second highest by an Indian batsman on Test debut, next only to the 187 by Shikhar Dhawan vs Australia at Mohali in March 2013
Rohit Sharma is the fifth Indian player to be adjudged the Man of the Match on Test debut - the other four being Pravin Amre, R.P.Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin and Shikhar Dhawan
Rohit Sharma's 177 on debut is the seventh highest score by a batsman on Test debut and second highest by an Indian. Below is the list:
- RE Tip Foster (ENG) - 287 vs Australia in Sydney 1903
- Jacques Rudolf (SA) - 222* vs Bangladesh at Chittagong 2003
- Lowrence Rowe (WI) - 214 vs New Zealand in Kingston 1972
- Matthew Sinclair (NZ) - 214 vs West Indies in Wellington 1999
- Brendon Kuruppu (SL) - 201* vs New Zealand in Colombo 1987
- Shikhar Dhawan (IND) - 187 vs Australia in Mohali 2013
- Rohit Sharma (IND) - 177 vs West Indies in Kolkata 2013
Ravichandran Ashwin (124 off 210 balls) has recorded a career-best score - his second century in Tests - both against the West Indies - his first was 103 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai in November 2011
Ashwin's aforesaid innings is the third highest by number eight batsman for India in Tests - the top two being Mahendra Singh Dhoni's 144 vs West Indies in November 2011 and 132 not out vs South Africa in February 2010 - both at Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Ashwin is now the fourth Indian batsman to register two centuries as number eight batsman in Tests - the first three being Kapil Dev, Harbhajan Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Ashwin's match figures of 124 and five wickets are his second best as an all-rounder in Tests, next only to the 117 (103 + 14) and 9 for 190 runs vs West Indies in the 2011-12 Mumbai Test. His other instance of 100 runs and five wickets in the match being - 112 (21 + 91*) and five for 214 vs England at Kolkata in December 2012
Shivnarine Chanderpaul's tally of 2105 (ave.65.78) in 24 Tests is the third highest in India-West Indies Tests, next only to Sunil Gavaskar (2749) and Clive Lloyd (2344).
Sachin Tendulkar now figures in 71 wins - the most by an Indian player in Tests
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