Live Cricket Score, India vs West Indies 1st ODI: Centurions Kohli, Sharma help India crush Windies by 8 wickets

PITCH REPORT - Ian Bishop doing the pitch report mentions that there is brown grass on the surface with plenty of cracks. Sunil Gavaskar alongside him says that there will be turn for the spinners but the ball will skid as well. Adds that the pitch is hard from underneath and the cracks will open up later. Reckons that it is a bat first pitch. Ends by saying that there won't be any dew later on as the game should end before that.

You'd bank on Windies to do better in white-ball cricket. Though, they have key players missing. In the absence of people like Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell and Evin Lewis, the task is going to be an uphill one. They do have some positives, however, with Shimron Hetmyer being one of them. They will have to muster all their courage, bind together and perform as a collective. Let's see how it all unfolds. The toss and other updates coming up soon...

Any games in the 50-over format will be important for all the teams now with the upcoming World Cup in 2019. India have a more or less settled batting order, barring that no.4 position, which Ambati Rayudu now seems the front runner for. They have strength in depth and will want to test that too, if they decide to rest some players, that is. They beat the Windies comprehensively in the Test series, and will want to continue further with that. Hello and welcome for what should be a better contest between these two sides.