Robin leaves the Windies throbbing

TORONTO, SEPT 11: Indian bowlers led by Robin Singh bowled a discreet line and extracted the maximum out of the windy conditions to bowl out West Indies for a lowly 163 runs in the DMC Cup opener today.

Robin Singh, along with Debashish Mohanty and Nikhil Chopra did the early damage and had the West Indians tottering at 57 for four after skipper Saurav Ganguly won the toss and elected to field.After Mohanty rattled the stumps of Adrian Griffiths and Chopra got Shivnarain Chanderpaul 16 dismissed, stumped by MSK Prasad, Robin Singh bowled out Chris Gayle and had skipper Brian Lara caught by Kanitkar at deep square leg to leave the Caribbeans precariously placed.

Scoreboard

West Indies: S Campbell st MSK Prasad b Joshi 62, A Griffiths b Mohanty 1, S Chanderpaul st MSK Prasad b Chopra 16, C Gayle b Robin Singh 1, B Lara c Kanitkar b Robin 2, R Powell c Martin b Robin 37, R Jacobs lbw b Chopra 19, H Bryan ct MSK Prasad b Joshi 1, C Colleymore not out 13, R King c Martin b Mohanty 0, C Walshc Martin b V Prasad 1; Extras b2, lb2, w4, nb2 10

Total all out in 46.2 overs 163

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-43, 3-48, 4-57, 5-121, 6-135, 7-141, 8-155, 9-160.

Bowling: V Prasad 8.2-0-38-1, Mohanty 10-2-31-2, Robin Singh 10-1-43-3, Chopra 10-3-17-2, Joshi 8-0-30-2.