{"id":199158,"date":"2025-10-14T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199158\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:19:07","slug":"india-vs-west-indies-shubman-gill-leads-hosts-to-series-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199158\/","title":{"rendered":"India vs West Indies: Shubman Gill leads hosts to series win"},"content":{"rendered":"

India wasted little time in completing a clean sweep over West Indies to give Shubman Gill his first Test series win as captain.<\/p>\n

Opener KL Rahul hit an unbeaten half-century as India sealed a seven-wicket win on the fifth morning in Delhi.<\/p>\n

It keeps the hosts third in the early stages of the World Test Championship (WTC) standings,, external<\/a> behind Australia and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The win was set up by centuries in the first innings by Yashasvi Jaiswal (175) and Gill (129*).<\/p>\n

West Indies were bundled out for 248 in reply but did manage to fight back and make India bat again with a better second-innings showing.<\/p>\n

John Campbell and Shai Hope hit dogged centuries, taking the tourists to 271-3 before Hope was bowled by Mohammed Siraj and the middle order collapsed.<\/p>\n

Six wickets fell for 40 runs, before some late hitting by number 11 Jayden Seales added enough runs to give India a chase of sorts.<\/p>\n

However, the hosts were always going to win once Rahul and Sai Sudharsan, who added 39 to his first-innings 87, put on 79 for the second wicket.<\/p>\n

India’s next assignment is a white-ball tour of Australia, which will be broadcast ball by ball on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, before they welcome South Africa for a two-Test series.<\/p>\n

West Indies begin a tour of New Zealand on 5 November. They are sixth in the WTC standings, with New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa only below them because they are yet to complete a Test in this latest cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India wasted little time in completing a clean sweep over West Indies to give Shubman Gill his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-199158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}