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From an overseas point of view. Shaw has a couple of things going for him. Strong back foot player and plays the ba… https://t.co/j01ZR3YC14 — Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) 1538641413000
@PrithviShaw lives up to his potential..& carves a niche fr himself..Crkt World will hear a lot of him;but so will… https://t.co/G5LjJvd9aR — Bishan Bedi (@BishanBedi) 1538643704000
Lovely to see such an attacking knock in your first innings, @prithvishaw! Continue batting fearlessly. #INDvWI https://t.co/IIM2IifRAd — Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) 1538643958000
💯👏🙌 Take a bow, @PrithviShaw #INDvWI https://t.co/3ttCamlAcl — BCCI (@BCCI) 1538637605000
Well done Pujara! Didn’t see that coming, carrying a bottle of water in his pocket while batting. Saving time. Well done! #OverRates — Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) 1538634094000
Beating Rajkot's heat, Pujara's way 🆒😎 #INDvWI @cheteshwar1 https://t.co/v86gceoEw2 — BCCI (@BCCI) 1538633504000
This boy is class and a lambi race ka ghoda- Prithvi Shaw. So good to watch #IndvWI — Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) 1538631404000
And, here comes the first Test FIFTY for the debutant @PrithviShaw 👏👏 Live - https://t.co/RfrOR7MGDV #INDvWI https://t.co/smDS2226bA — BCCI (@BCCI) 1538631232000
Like the look of Prithvi Shaw. It’s not exactly baptism with fire....haven’t been asked tough questions yet but the… https://t.co/tEJ5AIptsR — Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) 1538628201000
Test Cap No. 293: @PrithviShaw's dream come true moment 🙌 #INDvWI https://t.co/cPMiR1tLwW — BCCI (@BCCI) 1538623844000
Here's the Playing XI for #INDvWI Live - https://t.co/RfrOR7MGDV https://t.co/NwpNBwzS8d — BCCI (@BCCI) 1538624325000
INTERVIEW: Young @PrithviShaw is all set to make his Test debut for #TeamIndia tomorrow 👏🙌 Watch the youngster spe… https://t.co/0P57kwVVy4 — BCCI (@BCCI) 1538565415000
Good day for India -- 364/4 in 89 overs at stumps on Day 1. Prithvi Shaw 134, Virat Kohli 72*; Shannon Gabriel 1/66Skipper Virat Kohli, playing on 72 not out, and wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant (17 not out) were at the crease for the hosts India when umpires dislodged the bails to mark the end of the day. The day belongs to debutant Prithvi Shaw, who broke a number of records en route to his maiden Test century.350 comes up for India in 86.2 overs. Virat Kohli 70* & Rishabh Pant 6*Six overs left in the day and West Indies have decided to take the second new ball. India 337/4 in 84 oversRoston Chase gets rid of Ajinkya Rahane (41). India 337/4 in 83.3 oversIndia vice-captain immediately went up for a review, but the ball had touched the toe end of the bat. India not only lost Ajinkya Rahane, they lost the review too.100-run stand comes up between Virat Kohli (62*) and Ajinkya Rahane (40*). India 332/3for skipper Virat Kohli off 100 balls, his 20th in Tests. India 313/3 in 76.3 overs. Ajinkya Rahane 33*300 comes up for India in 72.4 overs. Virat Kohli 45* & Ajinkya Rahane 27*Kohli and Rahane have added 50-run stand for the fourth wicket with India reaching at 282/3 in 69 overs.India approaching 300 with two of their best batsmen in the middle, and looking very confident in their strokeplay. It will take something special for the Windies bowlers to go past Kohli and Rahane's defences. India 269/3 in 62 overs.Kohli has moved to 21*, while Rahane is getting his eye in at 6*. But there are no demons in this track that has played quite true apart from the ball that stopped on Shaw, leading to his dismissal. India 255/3 in 58 overs.The two senior pros - Kohli and Rahane - are building on the big 206-run stand raised by Shaw and Pujara before tea. India 240/3 in 53 overs.India 232/3 in 51 overs at tea in Rajkot (Prithvi Shaw 134, Cheteshwar Pujara 86). Virat Kohli batting on 4 and Rahane on 0*.OUT! Minutes before the tea break, debutant Prithvi Shaw (134) falls to a soft dismissal, offering a simple return catch to Devendra Bishoo. India 232/3 in 50.2 overs.By the look of things, the only man who can dismiss Shaw (125*) at the moment is Shaw himself. Batting like a rock in the middle of the SCA Stadium, with skipper Virat Kohli (1*) giving the young man company now. India 220/2 in 48 overs, with tea break round the corner.Wicket alert! End of the 206-run partnership as Pujara (86) nicks Lewis to be dismissed caught behind. India 209/2.India's 200 comes up in 40.3 overs as Shaw (108*) opens the face of the bat to send the ball behind square for a boundary. His 16th four. India 200/1India 182/1. Cheteshwar Pujara has quietly moved into the 70s, while Prithvi Shaw grabs all the headlines for his record ton.Prithvi Shaw scores hundred on debut, becomes second youngest Indian (18 years 329 days) after Sachin Tendulkar to hit a Test century. India 174/1.Shaw is into the 90s, batting on 93. To reach his debut century, he has to fight his debut into the nervous nineties. India 166/1 in 30 overs.Shaw has taken off after lunch, starting with two boundaries in the first over bowled by Bishoo after the break. India 142/1 in 26 overs.India 133/1 in 25 overs at lunch on Day 1 in Rajkot (Prithvi Shaw 75*, Cheteshwar Pujara 56*). The partnership between the two is now 130 after India lost KL Rahul (0) at the score of three in the first over.Half-century for Cheteshwar Pujara (52*) as well. His 19th in Test cricket. India 121/1 in 23 overs.India's hundred comes in style, as Shaw (61*) smashes Chase for two consecutive boundaries. India 102/1 in 20 overs.Prithvi Shaw races to a half-century on Test debut, raising it in just 56 balls with 7 fours. Youngest to score a Test fifty for India.This match is all about Prithvi Shaw at the moment, who is taking on the West Indies bowlers and has reached 43* off 44, including seven boundaries. India 68/1 in 14 overs.Prithvi Shaw (31*) and Cheteshwar Pujara (21*) have raised India's fifty in 10.3 overs.First sign of spin as the Windies press Devendra Bishoo into service. Not much hint of turn at this early stage, especially with a fair bit of grass on the surface. India 36/1.Not much crowd in the stadium, with it being a working day. India 27/1, with Shaw having made 24 of those.There are absolutely no nerves about Shaw (22* off 16), scoring freely and all around the wicket with ease. India 24/1Debutant Prithvi Shaw took the first ball. That was brave. Gets off the mark in style with a punch through the covers. But KL Rahul (0) at the other end doesn't last long. Out LBW, reviews but waste. Shannon Gabriel strikes off the last ball of the first over. 3/1KL Rahul, Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (WK), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Kedar YadavK Brathwaite, K Powell, S Hetmyer, S Hope, R Chase, S Ambris, S Dowrich, K Paul, D Bishoo, S. Lewis, S GabrielIndia win the toss and decide to bat first. Jason Holder out injured for West Indies.Toss coming up in 10 minutesHere's a video of batting prodigy Shaw sharing his thoughts ahead of his big day- Good morning and a very warm welcome to the start of another Test series for India, this time in home comfort, as West Indies begin their tour with the first Test at Rajkot.There is a breath of fresh air about the start of this series, with the much-awaited debut of young opener Prithvi Shaw a certainty after India announced a shortlist of 12 players on the eve of the Test on Wednesday. So quite rightly it's going to be 'Shaw Time' in Saurashtra.Stung by defeat in England and heading to Australia for a tough tour next month, India's cricketers are looking for some confidence-boosting home victories against the West Indies from Thursday.The number one Test side and the winner of last week's Asia Cup start as favourites against the eighth-ranked West Indies in the series of two Tests, five one-day internationals and three twenty20 games."West Indies doesn't have a team to compete against India. They don't stand a chance at all," veteran India spinner Harbhajan Singh told AFP ahead of the first Test in Rajkot starting on Thursday.But India may not find it so easy, with series defeats this year in England and South Africa revealing some serious chinks in India's armour, at least away from home.India, under talismanic captain Virat Kohli, have new faces in uncapped batsman Mayank Agarwal and fast bowler Mohammed Siraj.Siraj will bolster the pace attack led by Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav who could trouble the relatively young West Indian batting line-up.Meanwhile spinners Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav are a formidable force on home turf.The Jason Holder-led West Indies are arriving off the back of a successful home season where they drew a Test series against Sri Lanka and then drubbed Bangladesh 2-0.Batsman Sunil Ambris has already made his case for a place in the team XI after his unbeaten 114 in the tourists' only warm-up game in India.The erstwhile cricket powerhouse have been bolstered by the return of experienced quick bowler Kemar Roach who will join fellow pacemen Holder and Shannon Gabriel."We have played some really good cricket in recent times. Quite a few of our guys stood out individually and we have to keep that collective strength," Holder was quoted as saying by The Hindu newspaper."India is the number one Test team. They have played some good cricket despite their last series (against England). It will be a good test for us," Holder, captain in 26 of his 34 Tests so far, said.Holder also said that leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo could prove to be key on turning Indian tracks."He has been around for a while and doing well. The conditions could favour him a bit more here. We expect him to come into play in this series and be a match-winner," he said of Bishoo.It will be West Indies' first India tour since the Caribbean side abandoned their 2014 trip due to a players' pay dispute with the national cricket board.
West Indies in India, 2 Test Series, 2018 - 1st Test Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot
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NEW BALL: Rahane must be livid with himself. This was perhaps the easiest chance for him to get a hundred. But he has squandered that opportunity away. Moving forward, Pant has come to the crease. He is fresh from his hundred against England. It remains to be seen how he tackles the spinners. And new ball has been taken.
