There have solely been two Test matches so far on the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) Stadium and India face England beginning Thursday to play the third. The first of the 2 Tests was between the identical two sides which resulted in a attract November 2016. In the second, India ended up working away to their greatest ever Test victory towards the West Indies in October 2018.
Prithvi Shaw turned the youngest Indian centurion since Sachin Tendulkar the final time a Test match was performed in Rajkot(AP)
The match was memorable in a number of methods for Indian followers and the most important take away from it was Prithvi Shaw making a dream worldwide debut. Shaw opened the innings with KL Rahul as India batted first and ended up smashing 134 runs in simply 154 balls. He was the youngest Indian Test centurion on debut and the second youngest Test centurion for the workforce for the reason that nice Sachin Tendulkar. While Rahul fell for a duck, Shaw posted a partnership of 206 runs for the second wicket with Cheteshwar Pujara, during which he contributed 113 in 124 balls. The stand ended when Pujara fell to Devendra Bishoo on 86. Shaw fell quickly thereafter however India then piled on extra distress on the West Indies.
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Captain Virat Kohli scored 139, sharing a 105-run partnership with Ajinkya Rahane after which a blistering 133-run stand off simply 148 balls with Rishabh Pant, with the latter unsurprisingly doing a lot of the heavy lifting within the partnership. Kohli fell after a 64-run partnership with Ravindra Jadeja after which the latter went on to attain 100 in 132 balls. India declared on 649/9.
The West Indies have been then blown away for 181 and 196. Ravichandran Ashwin took 4 wickets in simply 11 overs within the first innings after which Kuldeep Yadav picked 5 and Jadeja three within the second. India received by an innings and 272 runs, their highest margin of victory towards the West Indies in Test cricket. Shaw was participant of the match and, contemplating the repute he had constructed all through his time in Mumbai’s junior circuits, the Mumbai top notch workforce and main India to the U19 World Cup title, it was thought to be the beginning of a probably nice profession. However, he has ended up enjoying solely 4 extra Test matches since then, the final of which got here in December 2020. Shaw managed to attain two extra half-centuries within the eight innings after that. While he has put up extraordinary performances in home top notch cricket since 2020, a return to Test cricket or the Indian workforce in any format appears to be like far-off for the 24-year-old in the intervening time.
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