Statistical highlights: Ashwin the third-quickest to 18 fifers

India's domination over West Indies extended into the first day of the second Test match at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica. West Indies were bundled out for 196 in 52.3 overs with only Jermaine Blackwood making a noteworthy contribution with 62 off 62 deliveries. R Ashwin once again proved to be the tormentor for West Indies as the off spinner claimed his 18th five-wicket haul in Tests. An opening stand of 87 between Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul ensured that India were strongly placed at the end of the opening day's play.

Statistical highlights of day one of the second Test:
 
16.34 Average opening partnership for West Indies since the start of 2015, the lowest for any team with at least three stands. At home, they average even worse at 11.30 from 13 innings.

3 West Indies' number three batsmen getting dismissed for a golden duck against India - Alvin Kallicharan in Kolkata in 1974, Ramnaresh Sarwan in Gros islet in 2006 and Darren Bravo in this Test match.

7 Second-lowest score for which West Indies lost their first three wickets against India. The only lower score was when they lost the first three for just one run on the board in Port of Spain in 1983.

46 Runs scored in boundaries by Jermaine Blackwood when he reached his fifty (54). It is the joint second-most runs scored in boundaries for West Indies when the batsman crossed fifty.

4 Instances of the fourth-wicket pair putting up fifty or more for West Indies after losing the first three inside ten runs. The last such instance came when Brian Lara and Carl Hooper put together 124 against Australia in Bridgetown in 1995.

100 Strike rate for Jermaine Blackwood in this innings. It is the fourth-highest for West Indies against India where a batsman has scored at least 50 runs. The last time a West Indian batsman scored at a Strike Rate of 100 or more against India was in 1988 in Chennai, when Gus Logie scored 67 off 62 balls.

6 Number of times Marlon Samuels has been dismissed by R Ashwin in Tests. He has scored 68 runs off 127 balls against Ashwin. Only Muttiah Muralitharan has dismissed him more often in Tests - seven times. It is also the joint second-most Ashwin has dismissed someone in Tests, after Ed Cowan (7) and David Warner (6).

18 Five-wicket hauls for Ashwin after 33 Tests and one innings. Only Sydney Barnes (24) and Waqar Younis (31) have taken fewer Tests to take 18 five-fors.

24* by Miguel Cummins is the fourth-highest individual score for a West Indies number ten on debut. The highest is 45 by Denis Atkinson against India in Delhi in 1948.

52.3 overs batted by West Indies is the lowest they batted in the first innings of a Test against India after winning the toss. Their total of 196 is their fourth-lowest first-innings total against India in Tests.

Fewest overs batted by West Indies vs India after opting to bat

Overs	Score	Inns	Venue	Start Date
52.3	196	1	Kingston	30-Jul-16
72.5	214	1	Port of Spain	6-Mar-71
72.5	228	1	Chennai	12-Jan-79
73.5	190	2	Bridgetown	28-Jun-11
76.2	253	1	Kingston	13-Apr-62
77.5	245	2	Port of Spain	19-Apr-02
78	234	1	Kolkata	6-Nov-13
79.3	167	1	Chennai	17-Oct-02

 

196 is the third lowest first innings total for West Indies against India after winning the toss. The 167 in Chennai in 2002 and 190 in Bridgetown in 2011 are the other totals.

87-run partnership between Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul is the first fifty-plus stand for the first wicket for India in West Indies in the last ten innings. Their scores in this period read - 1, 1, 15, 0, 1, 26, 13, 0 and 14. The four stands prior to the beginning of this poor run read 72, 159, 61 and 109.

75* by KL Rahul is the third-highest for an Indian opener in his first innings in West Indies. Ajay Jadeja's 96 in St John's in 1997 and 84 by Shikhar Dhawan in the previous Test are the higher scores.