3rd test at St Lucia - thanks to Ashwin, India manage to score 233 for 5 on first day

It was the 3rd test match of the 4-match series in St Lucia, West Indies, and the home team managed to restrict the Indian batsmen to 233 for 5. Ravichandran Ashwin is gradually turning out to be a real all-rounder because he scored 75 of the 233 runs. Such a low score was not due to rain, fog or bad light but a result of a dedicated West Indies team and smart bowling and captaincy from Holder.
He kept himself and the three other of his fast bowlers fresh by rotating them. His bowlers bowled consistently in the channel outside off stump and tempted the batsmen to go after the ball. There were no free hits, the boundary-riders manned their territories diligently. Saha, for one, struggled to rotate the strike (he was 1 off 34 balls before a miscued slog landed safely in front of deep midwicket). At one stage of the game, there wasn't a boundary hit for 21 overs.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 10 August 2016.

Shikhar Dhawan went for 1, Virat Kohli for 3 and Rohit Sharma for 9. Lokesh Rahul went for 50 and Ajinkya Rahane for 35. Ashwin (75) and Saha (46) were at the crease at close of play.
Runs were hard to come by - the St Lucia pitch had plenty of bounce, the outfield was sluggish and the West Indies bowlers operated to a plan. Their teasing lines tied down the stroke-making Indian batsmen. The exception was Ravichandran Ashwin - he has three Test centuries to his credit and all three have come against West Indian attacks. In the first session of play, 87 runs were scored in 23 overs. In the second session, 43 runs from 29 overs. And in the last session, 104 runs from 38.


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