Sharma stars as India beat West Indies

India's Rohit Sharma (L) hits a shot past the
 West Indies' Andre Russell

Cuttak, November 29: Rohit Sharma played a thrilling innings of 72 runs to guide India to the victory over West Indies in the first One-day International here on Tuesday.

Kemar Rouch and Andree Russel busted through Indian batting line up as half of the team went out for just 59 runs, while chasing a target of 212 runs. Sharma and Jadeja put a desperate 83-run stand for the 6th wicket to rescue India.

Sharma then added 42 valuable runs with Vinay Kumar (18). India required 9 runs of the last two overs before Umesh Yadav hit a boundary to  win with 7 balls to spare.

Indian Pace-men Yadav and Aaron both secured 2 wickets to hold West Indies to a modest score of 211 runs. Bravo top-scored for Indies, cracking 64 runs of 74 balls.

Score Board:

India v West Indies

India won by 1 wicket (with 7 balls remaining)

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	West Indies innings (50 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	LMP Simmons	b Yadav	19	48	30	2	1	63.33
	AB Barath	c †Patel b Vinay Kumar	17	19	13	3	0	130.76
	MN Samuels	b Aaron	10	17	11	2	0	90.90
	DM Bravo	b Raina	60	107	74	6	0	81.08
	DP Hyatt	run out (Vinay Kumar/†Patel)	31	70	54	2	1	57.40
	KA Pollard	c Kohli b Ashwin	13	33	33	0	0	39.39
	D Ramdin†	c & b Yadav	14	29	34	0	0	41.17
	DJG Sammy*	b Jadeja	0	12	8	0	0	0.00
	AD Russell	b Aaron	22	23	20	2	1	110.00
	KAJ Roach	not out	12	24	15	1	0	80.00
	A Martin	not out	3	9	8	0	0	37.50
	Extras	(lb 4, w 6)	10
	Total	(9 wickets; 50 overs; 200 mins)	211	(4.22 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-18 (Barath, 4.2 ov), 2-46 (Samuels, 8.1 ov), 3-52 (Simmons, 9.6 ov), 4-127 (Hyatt, 26.3 ov),5-154 (Bravo, 34.4 ov), 6-159 (Pollard, 36.5 ov), 7-169 (Sammy, 41.3 ov), 8-183 (Ramdin, 44.2 ov), 9-200 (Russell, 47.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	R Vinay Kumar	6	0	27	1	4.50	(1w)
	U Yadav	8	1	33	2	4.12
	VR Aaron	9	0	47	2	5.22	(4w)
	R Ashwin	10	1	30	1	3.00	(1w)
	RA Jadeja	10	0	42	1	4.20
	SK Raina	5	0	20	1	4.00
	RG Sharma	2	0	8	0	4.00

	India innings (target: 212 runs from 50 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	PA Patel†	c Martin b Roach	12	18	13	2	0	92.30
	V Sehwag*	b Russell	20	55	29	3	0	68.96
	G Gambhir	c †Ramdin b Roach	4	3	3	1	0	133.33
	V Kohli	b Roach	3	13	6	0	0	50.00
	RG Sharma	b Martin	72	185	99	3	1	72.72
	SK Raina	c Bravo b Russell	5	10	7	0	0	71.42
	RA Jadeja	c Simmons b Pollard	38	73	62	3	0	61.29
	R Ashwin	run out (Hyatt/†Ramdin/Sammy)	6	17	10	0	0	60.00
	R Vinay Kumar	c Roach b Sammy	18	67	48	1	0	37.50
	VR Aaron	not out	6	17	11	1	0	54.54
	U Yadav	not out	6	13	9	1	0	66.66
	Extras	(lb 3, w 16, nb 4)	23
	Total	(9 wickets; 48.5 overs; 240 mins)	213	(4.36 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-37 (Patel, 4.1 ov), 2-41 (Gambhir, 4.4 ov), 3-47 (Kohli, 6.3 ov), 4-51 (Sehwag, 9.3 ov),5-59 (Raina, 11.2 ov), 6-142 (Jadeja, 28.3 ov), 7-159 (Ashwin, 31.5 ov), 8-201 (Sharma, 45.2 ov),9-201 (Vinay Kumar, 46.1 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	KAJ Roach	10	0	46	3	4.60	(3nb, 5w)
	A Martin	6	1	35	1	5.83	(1w)
	AD Russell	9	1	29	2	3.22	(1nb, 1w)
	DJG Sammy	8.5	1	40	1	4.52
	MN Samuels	10	0	37	0	3.70	(2w)
	KA Pollard	5	0	23	1	4.60	(2w)