India vs West Indies Live Score, 1st Test: Siraj, Bumrah find massive joy in extended opening burst; 4 down in an hour

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: The bad news is that the weather will play a role today, in all likelihood. Up to 45% chance to precipitation through the afternoon, which means there will likely be a few overs lost through the first couple of sessions. It is better news for the coming days, but this is a toss the Windies in particular will want to win and bowl under overcast conditions in.

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: It's pretty difficult to see quite where India will go with their lineup. There are maybe seven guaranteed starters, which means as many as four different positions are up for grabs.

Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, and Ravindra Jadeja are those who will almost certainly feature today. After that, there is competition right across the pitch.

Does Prasidh Krishna come in as a bonafide third seamer or will the extra batting of Nitish Reddy get the nod? Sai Sudharsan up the order? Devdutt Padikkal further down it? Any love for Kuldeep Yadav as he finds himself in a remarkable run of form? Axar Patel come in to try and live up to Ravichandran Ashwin, as India prepare for a first home Test match without him in 15 years? Very little certainty as these six names battle for four spots. It could really be any combination of them.

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: India want their pitches at home to start having a little variety, after NZ showed how the raging turners equalises things to an extent that India's terrific spin options can be matched by the more pedestrian offerings of other countries. What this means is that there will be a little bit of tinkering as India try to form a new style of winning matches at home, where they want the quality of team rather than its ability on dusty surfaces to make the key difference. 4 or 5 mm of grass expected on this Ahmedabad surface, which might mean India could be tempted to take three frontline seamers into the contest…

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: It might be fair to say West Indies cricket, particularly with the red ball, is in something of a crisis. There are so many questions to answer, but all of them stem from a systemic issue within the sport in the Caribbean. Their WTC fate is uncertain, internal investigations have taken place aplenty, and being bowled out for 27 in a Test innings vs Australia didn't help matters much. Whatever hope West Indies do have, they might find it a better call to dispose of and instead play with total abandon: they don't have much else to lose, and if they turn up with that sort of mindset, it might just be a healthier place to be.

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: Maybe as a function of being scrappy underdogs towards the end of that series, but India once again ahowed why they are so highly regarded as the big team in cricket when they battled back from the dead to manage to salvage a series draw against England. All of a sudden, this team wasn't the one about to lose three consecutive series, but one which battled from the brink to produce a result. For a young team, that can be defining, and the heroics that took place at the Oval will really kickstart Gill's tenure at its head.

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: It has been roughly 10 months since India last played a Test match at home, and it has been a period which has seen them chafe from the manner in which they lost their invincible home streak: after 12 years of being unbeaten in series at home, they not only lost it, but were hammered 3-0 by a Kiwis team that was missing Kane Williamson. The months since have seen tonnes of change, as the biggest names in Indian cricket took a shock step back from the format, and a new up-and-coming star took over the reins of captaincy.

Much has changed, and India want to get back to winning ways again: they haven't won a Test series since they played against Bangladesh this time last year.

India vs West Indies Live Updates, 1st Test Match: Shubman Gill's young captaincy career in Test cricket already has a strong start with an impressive showcase in England, where a young Indian team battled to a 2-2 series draw. But things are different as he begins his first series at home: here, the expectations will always to be win, and as recent history has shown, India are finding that trickier than usual. India want things to go back to business as usual at home, and that should begin today. All the updates from the first Test vs West Indies, right here!