Scorecard

India [ Images ] won the toss and elected to bat in the first Test against the West Indies [ Images ] at the Antigua Recreation Ground in St John's, on Friday.

The visitors decided to strengthen their batting and went in with only one spinner in Anil Kumble [ Images ] and three pacers, in young V R V Singh, who will make his Test debut, S Sreesanth [ Images ] and Munaf Patel [ Images ].

Harbhajan Singh [ Images ] and Irfan Pathan [ Images ] were left out.

For the West Indies Shivnarine Chanderpaul [ Images ], who did not play the final two one-dayers because of a hamstring injury, returned to the side.

Teams:

India: Rahul Dravid [ Images ] (captain), Wasim Jaffer [ Images ], Virender Sehwag [ Images ], VVS Laxman [ Images ], Yuvraj Singh [ Images ], Mohd Kaif, M S Dhoni [ Images ], Anil Kumble, S Sreesanth, Munaf Patel and VRV Singh.

West Indies: Brian Lara [ Images ] (captain), Christopher Gayle, Daren Ganga [ Images ], Ramnaresh Sarwan [ Images ], Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Dwayne Bravo [ Images ], Denesh Ramdin [ Images ] (wk), Ian Bradshaw, Corey Collymore, Fidel Edwards [ Images ] and Dave Mohammed.