Twitterati laud Ashwin after another brilliant display with the ball 1

After bamboozling the West Indies batsmen in the first Test, Indian off-spinner R Ashwin once again wreaked havoc on the hosts as his 18th five-wicket haul and second consecutive one helped the visitors to take command of the match on the first day of the second Test at Jamaica.

He picked up four out of the six wickets to fall in the second session of the second Test as the hosts folded for another low score – 196. Ashwin’s five-wicket haul included the dismissals of Jermaine Blackwood (62), Marlon Samuels (37), Shane Dowrich (5), Jason Holder (13) and Devendra Bishoo (12).

The base of India’s dominance  was laid by pacers Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami, who reduced the hosts to 7/3 before Ashwin struck just at the stroke of lunch to put the West Indies on the backfoot.

In reply, India got off to a solid start. KL Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan got the team off to the strong start by putting on a 50-run stand for the first wicket. The partnership ended when Shikhar Dhawan failed to keep a drive down and was caught by Bravo off the bowling of Roston Chase.

Rahul(75) and Cheteshwar Pujara(18) saw off the remaining overs with an unbeaten 39-run stand as India ended the day at 125/1.

Let us see how the twitterati reacted to Ashwin’s superb display: