India vs West Indies 2nd Test: Big Changes in Playing XI after historic win

India vs West Indies 2nd Test: The world’s top-ranked bowler, Ravichandran Ashwin, proved too formidable for the ill-equipped West Indies batting line-up. His second five-wicket haul of the game set up India’s commanding victory by an innings and 141 runs in the opening Test of the two-match series on Saturday. India vs West Indies 2nd Test: Big Changes in Playing XI after historic win.

After scoring 150 runs in the first innings, the Caribbean team was bowled out for 130 runs in 50 overs in the second innings. At the same time, Team India scored 421 runs for five wickets in the first innings and declared a lead of 271 runs. After this amazing win, Team India captain Rohit Sharma has made a statement about the playing 11 for the next match.

After the win in the first match, Rohit Sharma has suggested a change in the playing XI of Team India for the second Test at Queen’s Park Oval. The second and final Test match between the two teams will be played from July 20. Rohit said, ‘The most important thing is to start well.

We didn’t worry too much about the pitch. We want to come here and get results. Now we want to continue this momentum in the second Test as well. “There are some players who have not played many Tests,” he said. Srikar Bharat, Rituraj Gaikwad, Axar Patel, Mukesh Kumar and Navdeep Saini were not included in the playing XI in the first Test match.

Talking at the post-match conference, Rohit spoke about how India completely outplayed West Indies while also reserving heavy praise for Ashwin and Jaiswal. He also made it a point to talk about the declaration, allowing the fans to know about what was the exact mindset in the Indian dressing room before they went for the kill.

He started by talking about the match, stating, “Every run you score for the country is important. I would like to start by saying it was a great effort with the ball. Getting them out for 150 set the game for us. We knew batting would get tough, it wasn’t easy to score runs. We knew we wanted to bat only once and bat long.

Get over 400 runs and then we came out and bowled really well.” Raving about debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal’s brilliance, Rohit said, “He has the talent, he has shown us in the past that he is ready, came and batted sensibly. The temperament was also tested, at no stage he was panicking. The chats we had were to remind him that ‘you belong here.

You have done the hard yards, enjoy your time here’.” He also opened up on the declaration part, stating, “I was just letting them know we have an over or so before declaring. I wanted Ishan to get off the mark, wanted to tell him to get his personal mark and then we had to declare. I could see that he was always eager to bat, it could be frustrating for them.”

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