Jadeja stars as India hammer West Indies

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Ravindra Jadeja has taken 334 wickets successful 86 Tests astatine an mean of 25.07, and scored six hundreds and 27 fifties

ByMike Peter

BBC Sport journalist

First Test, Ahmedabad (day 3 of five)

West Indies 162 (Greaves 32; Siraj 4-40) & 146 (Athanaze 38; Jadeja 4-54)

India 448-5 dec (Jurel 125, Jadeja 104*, Rahul 100; Chase 2-90)

India won by an innings and 140 runs; lead bid 1-0

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Ravindra Jadeja starred pinch bat and shot arsenic India hammered West Indies by an innings and 140 runs successful Ahmedabad.

Having scored an unbeaten 104 connected Friday, nan all-rounder took 4-54 arsenic nan location broadside wrapped up nan first Test wrong 2 sessions connected time three.

After India skipper Shubman Gill declared connected 448-5 overnight, West Indies needed to people 287 conscionable to make their opponents bat again.

That seemed improbable aft they were bowled retired for 162 connected time one, and nan visitors slipped to 46-5 pinch Jadeja removing opening John Campbell past dismissing Brandon King and Shai Hope for single-figure scores.

Alick Athanaze offered immoderate resistance, reaching 38 and putting connected a 46-run business pinch Justin Greaves, but erstwhile he was caught and bowled by Washington Sundar, immoderate dream of a 4th innings efficaciously ended.

Jadeja took 1 further wicket, having Johann Layne caught by Mohammed Siraj, and Jayden Seales was nan past man to autumn arsenic India started their location play pinch a win.

The teams recreation to Delhi for a 2nd and last Test opening connected Friday.

Gill replaces Rohit arsenic India ODI captain

After nan match, it was announced Test skipper Gill has been named arsenic India's ODI captain, replacing long-standing skipper Rohit Sharma.

Gill will lead nan broadside for nan first clip for a three-match ODI bid successful Australia opening connected 19 October.

Rohit's past lucifer arsenic skipper was nan Champions Trophy last successful March, wherever he lead India to triumph complete New Zealand.

The 38-year-old has been named successful nan touring statement and, for illustration chap seasoned Virat Kohli, looks group to play his first world cricket since nan Champions Trophy victory.

Gill replaced Rohit arsenic Test skipper successful May, starring his broadside for nan first clip successful nan 2-2 drawn bid successful England.

He led nan red-ball broadside for nan first clip successful India successful nan triumph successful Ahmedabad, skippering a squad that has mislaid Kohli, Rohit and Ravichandran Ashwin to status since its past location outing, a 3-0 bid conclusion by New Zealand past November.

The 26-year-old will besides beryllium vice-captain for a three-match T20 bid against Australia that follows nan 50-over limb of nan tour.

There will beryllium unrecorded ball-by-ball power sum of India's circuit of Australia connected BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and BBC Sounds.

India ODI squad: Shubman Gill (capt) Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (WK), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal.

India T20 squad: Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Sanju Samson (WK), Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar.