INDIA* DISMANTLES INDIES : CRICKET APPLAUSE

 

Ashwin helps India dismantle West Indies. The master spinner bags seven wickets in second innings and 141 run victory.

Roseau : Ravichandran Ashwin's seven-wicket second innings demolition job underlined his utter dominance of an inept West Indies team who crashed to defeat by an innings and 141 runs late on the third day of the first Test against India in Dominica on Friday.

It was India's largest margin of victory in a Test match in the West Indies and maintains an unbeaten run spanning more than 21 years against these opponents going into the second and final Test starting next Thursday in Trinidad.

After Rohit Sharma declared the tourists first innings closed at 421 for five, 40 minutes into the afternoon session, first day destroyers Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja wasted little time in adding to that first innings success to skittle the Caribbean team for 130 in just 50 overs.

Ashwin befittingly ended the match by trapping last man Jomel Warrican leg-before.

His haul of 7-71 lifted his match figures to 12-131, his eighth match haul of 10 wickets or more in Tests, while the support of Jadeja kept relentless pressure on a home side technically and temperamentally incapable of coping with such quality spin.

Debutant Alick Athanaze was again the top scorer with 28 but his effort paled in comparison to his Indian counterpart as opening batsman Yashasvi Jaswal led the way in India's only innings with a determined, dedicated innings of 171 which spanned more than eight hours and occupied 387 deliveries.

That effort earned him the man-of-the-match award notwithstanding the fantastic bowling figures of Ashwin. [AFP]