NEW DELHI: Pragyan Ojha grabbed two quick wickets as India reduced the West Indies to 69-2 at lunch on the opening day of the first Test at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.
The left-arm spinner, playing his first Test in a year, trapped opener Kieran Powell (14) leg-before in his second over and then held a return catch to dismiss Kirk Edwards (15) after the tourists won the toss.
Opener Kraigg Brathwaite was unbeaten on 29 at the break with Darren Bravo (10 not out).
Ojha, who pressed into the attack after just nine overs, had an opportunity to remove Powell in his opening over but failed to hold on to a return catch. But the batsman fell in the next over.
The Indian spinner kept testing the batsmen in his opening spell, having so far conceded just 14 runs off 10 overs.
India went into the opening Test of a three-match series with two pacemen, Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav, and as many spinners, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ojha.
Ashwin and Yadav made their Test debuts.
Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, the world's leading scorer in both Test and one-day cricket, needs just one hundred to complete an unprecedented 100 international centuries.
The remaining two Tests will be played in Kolkata and Mumbai.
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