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Kolkata: Rohit Sharma became the 14th Indian to hit a century on Test debut as India ended the second day at 354/6 with a lead of 120 runs in the first Test against the West Indies at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday.
Rohit remained unbeaten on 127 while Ravichandran Ashwin ended the day on a fabulous 92 with the pair putting up an 198-run stand for the seventh wicket.
Rohit reached the milestone off his 193rd delivery with an edge between first slip and gully to a delivery by Sheldon Cottrell that went for four.
Ravichandran Ashwin hit his fourth half-century as India took the lead.
Ashwin brought up his 198-run stand with Rohit. India were 229/6 at tea.
In second session India lost their sixth wicket as Tino Best had captain MS Dhoni caught behind by Denesh Ramdin. Dhoni stayed rooted to the crease and just threw his bat at the delivery that just moved away while taking the edge. Dhoni scored 42 and added 73 runs with Rohit for the sixth wicket.
Indian were 120/5 at lunch.
Shane Shillingford won the first session of the day for his side. With the aid of low bounce and his top-spinning doosra, he plucked up the wickets of four top-order batsmen and the pitch is keeping a bit low on Day 2 itself.
India lost their fifth wicket when Shillingford had Virat Kohli push forward to defend the off-break and it lobbed up off the inside edge on to pad and ended up in the hands of Kieran Powell at forward short leg.
Shillingford silenced the Eden Gardens crowd by trapping Sachin Tendulkar plumb in front of the wicket.
Shillingford flighted the doosra and pitched it on middle, Tendulkar tried to defend from his crease and the ball straightened past the outside edge and hit the back leg quite high. The impact was too high, the ball would have gone over the top, but umpire Nigel Llong did not think so.
Sheldon Cottrell took his first Test wicket when he had Cheteshwar Pujara caught behind by Denesh Ramdin. Pujara was trying to hit a rising delivey over third man but ended up edging the delivery to Ramdin.
Sachin Tendulkar walked in to a thunderous applause after Shane Shillingford had Murali Vijay stumped by Denesh Ramdin.
Shillingford lured Vijay out with a tossed up ball who did not pick the straighter one and has walked right past it and became Shillingford's 50th Test victim.
Shikhar Dhawan edged a Shillingford delivery onto his leg-stump as India lost their first wicket in the third over of the day.
The day's play started with openers Dhawan and Murali Vijay resuming the Indian first innings at 37/0.
Brief scores
West Indies 234 (Samuels 65, Mohammed Shami 4-71)
India 354 for 6 (Sharma 127*, Ashwin 92, Shillingford 4-130)
Status India lead by 120 runs
