NEW DELHI (AP) — Shubman Gill won the toss for the first time in seven games and decided his India lineup would bat first Friday in the second cricket test against West Indies.
Gill, who took over India’s test captaincy ahead of the tour of England, lost all five tosses in that series as well as in the first match of this series.
India fielded an unchanged lineup from the first test , where it won by an innings and 140 runs to start the two-match series.
That was the first time in 15 years that India played a home test without Virat Kohli , Rohit Sharma or Ravichandran Ashwin .
Kohli and Sharma have since been selected in India’s ODI squad for the tour of Australia later this month. Shubman Gill has also been named ODI skipper, replacing Sharma this past week.
West Indies made