Shubman Gill collects lucky 'first' as India Test captain vs West Indies

India skipper Shubman Gill yet won the flip aft going done six consecutive losses with the coin arsenic the hosts opted to bat against the West Indies astatine the Arun Jaitley Stadium successful Delhi. India spell into the 2nd and last Test of the bid unchanged.

West Indies, meanwhile, person made 2 changes aft the innings and 140 runs hammering successful the opener astatine Narendra Modi Stadium successful Ahmedabad. The Windies person brought successful Anderson Phillip and Tevim Imlach for Brandon King and Johann Layne.Shubman Gill, who had taken implicit arsenic India skipper from Rohit Sharma with his travel opening successful England, had mislaid each 5 tosses during the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. He past subsequently didn't get the luck of the coin successful Ahmedabad either. That changed erstwhile Roston Chase's telephone for heads came retired tails.WATCH: Shubman Gill breaks flip losing streak!Gill had joined Tom Latham arsenic different skipper to suffer six consecutive tosses arsenic Test skipper. Bevan Congdon, who captained New Zealand, had the misfortune of going done 7 specified Test matches.On expected lines, India decided to bat. "Wicket looks good, we privation to heap connected the runs. Consistency is key, to repetition performances and support performances," said Gill to Murali Karthik astatine the toss.Having besides taken up the ODI captaincy from Rohit, Gill said helium was 'very excited for the future.'

He besides revealed that India person not made immoderate alteration for the 2nd Test.Chase said West Indies would person batted arsenic good if the coin flip had gone their way. "We'd person batted first, transportation looks dry. We had immoderate meetings, immoderate heavy discussions astir our batting. Want to bat 90 overs. Gotta play each shot connected its merit," helium said.West Indies Playing XI: John Campbell, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Alick Athanaze, Shai Hope, Roston Chase(c), Tevin Imlach(w), Justin Greaves, Jomel Warrican, Khary Pierre, Anderson Phillip, Jayden SealesIndia Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Dhruv Jurel(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj