Ravichandran Ashwin feasted on West Indies wickets on a beneficiant turning pitch to propel India to victory by an innings and 141 runs inside three days of the primary Test.
Ashwin took 7-71 within the second innings, his finest figures abroad, as West Indies have been bowled out for 130 in lower than 51 overs.
New cap Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 171 for India because the guests declared their first innings at 5-421 about an hour after lunch for a lead of 271.
That was imposing contemplating West Indies made simply 150 of their first knock.
Offering spin-friendly Windsor Park to 2 of the world’s finest spinners was thought-about overly charitable not lengthy after West Indies received the toss and determined to let India bowl first.
Ashwin, the No.1-ranked Test bowler with a degree to show after being omitted from the World Test Championship closing in opposition to Australia, and Ravindra Jadeja, the No.1-ranked Test allrounder, padded already spectacular statistics with 17 of the 20 West Indies wickets.
Beside 5-60 from the primary innings, Ashwin’s dozen wickets within the match gave him an eighth 10-wicket haul in a Test, tying Anil Kumble’s India document. They are tied for fifth on the all-time listing.
Jadeja took 2-38 on Friday for a match haul of 5 wickets.
The hosts have gone the gap solely twice of their final 10 Tests going again 16 months.
India, in the meantime, prolonged their unbeaten run within the Caribbean to 14 Tests after a seventh win since 2006.
The highest rating by an India man on debut was 187 by Shikhar Dhawan in 2013, and Jaiswal seemed set to beat it on Friday morning till he fell 16 runs brief.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
