India defeated Windies in a low profile series

                                        Good win by India over West Indies

A low profile series, A series in which everybody knew the result, everyone saw it coming but a win is a win and a win over west indies in west indies is always wonderful. This was the first assignment given to coach Anil Kumble and the way he and Kohli handled the troop is quite good to watch. India started off well with complete domination in the first test. Captain Kohli with his maiden double ton

 and Ashwin after been promoted to 6^th  position scoring a brilliant hundered. After scoring huge pile of runs it was now the turn of Indian bowlers who with in no time rushed into windies line up and just tormented the opposition.

The 2^nd test was also on a similar note, Windies were looking out of sorts , Ind was on top until the last day which saw history been made and the resilient west indies were able to save the match which was almost looked lost.

In the 3^rd test with a number of changes, a bit weakened Indian batting lineup and a morale booster draw for windies  were good enough to make for a good contest in 3^rd test. It started that way too with india winning the toss and opting to bat first were stumbling at 126/5. Kohli’s decision to keep vijay out and Sharma in was already criticized heavily and then came the duo of Ashwin and Saha. Ashwin with already a hundred in series and having scored all his three 100s against the same opposition was quite confident. On the other hand Saha with things to prove was a bit shaky. After a slow a steady start the duo started to look settled leading to a great recovery with India ending the day 1 at 234/5.

Day 2 started with another brilliant showdown by both these batsmen as both made brilliant tons with Saha’s maiden test ton. Indian inning came to an end with a decent 353. 

West indies responded solidily and the game was nicely poised until there came a special spell from Bhuvi opening the chances for India in the match which India grabbed with both hands. 

With scoring runs quickly in 2^nd innings, India set a target of 345 in 87overs. 

West indies looked completely confused in the middle and with almost all the batsmen preferring to stay on backfoot, they were reduced to 35/3 in just 13.2 ovs.

With the wicket of Roston Chase on ball of the series bowled by Ishant Sharma, The win was just the matter of time and took just 48 ovs. In total to wrap up the inning. With that Kohli became the only test captain to win two test matches in a series in west indies.    

It was indeed a great win for the Indians specially for the double K (Kohli and Kumble). It was great to see the intent, aggression and greed for win which has been lacking in the longer format for quite sometime now. Since Kohli has taken over things have changed dramatically, be it the chase in adelaide in australia or the series with lankans and proteas.

The bold decision taken by Kohli have highly paid off and the same reflected in this series. The decision to left out Vijay, Pujara,Mishra and Yadav was debatable but with the way Bhuvi has bowled, ashwin and saha taking responsibilities, the decision looked good.

 Although the decision of including Sharma and jadeja hasn't paid off  but the morale of team has been high and having selection issues for good reasons is always a great thing to have for any team. India still have loads of issues to resolve, be it the poor form of Dhawan, absence of a quality allrounder or a bowling unit which can dismantle any opposition on any kind of track.