India vs West Indies Tests Oct 2018: India Win 2-0 — Prithvi Shaw 134 on Debut Rajkot, Kohli 139, Jadeja 100*, Umesh Yadav 10 Wickets Hyderabad, India's 100th Home Test Win

India won the West Indies Test series October 2018 by 2-0. 1st Test Saurashtra CA Stadium, Rajkot (Oct 4-6): India won by innings and 272 runs — IND 649/9d; WI 181 & 196 (follow-on). Prithvi Shaw 134 (debut); Kohli 139; Jadeja 100*; Rishabh Pant 92. Kuldeep Yadav 5/57 (WI 2nd innings). India's 100th home Test win. WI captained by Kraigg Brathwaite (Holder injured). 2nd Test Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad (Oct 12-14): India won 10 wickets — WI 311 & 127; IND 367 & 75/0. Umesh Yadav took 10 match wickets (only the 3rd Indian fast bowler to achieve 10 match wickets at home in Tests). Jason Holder 5/56 (1st innings for WI — first WI fast bowler five-for in India since 1994). Holder captained WI. Virat Kohli captained India both Tests.

Prithvi Shaw 134 on Debut: India's 100th Home Test Win at Rajkot

Prithvi Shaw scoring 134 on Test debut at Rajkot — becoming India's 16th centurion on Test debut and the youngest batter to score a debut century for India in Tests at that point — gave the 1st Test's batting landmark its individual significance: the 18-year-old Mumbai opener's debut innings producing one of the most aggressive debut centuries in India's bilateral Test history. Shaw's 134 in partnership with Kohli's 139 and Jadeja's 100* (three of India's batters reaching individual milestones in the same 649/9 declared) gave India the bilateral's batting foundation: a total of 649/9d that left West Indies requiring over 400 runs across two innings (WI 181 1st innings, 196 follow-on 2nd innings — both dismissed with Kuldeep Yadav taking 5/57 in WI's 2nd innings) to avoid an innings defeat that India completed by innings and 272 runs. The 1st Test's Rajkot venue adding the historical note that India's bilateral win was their 100th home Test win — confirming the bilateral context of India's domestic Test cricket: 100 home wins across Tests played at Rajkot, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, and other bilateral venues.

Umesh Yadav 10 Match Wickets at Hyderabad: Only Third Indian Pacer at Home

Umesh Yadav taking 10 wickets in the Hyderabad 2nd Test — only the third Indian fast bowler to take 10 match wickets at home in Test cricket — gave the bilateral's second match its pace bowling landmark: India's fast bowler dominating on a Hyderabad surface that bilateral conditions gave Umesh's seam bowling (West Indies 311 in their 1st innings and 127 in their 2nd innings, combined for 438 runs against India's 367 1st innings and 75/0 2nd innings chase, India winning 10 wickets) the bilateral wicket-taking that his 10-wicket match performance confirmed. Jason Holder's 5/56 in India's 1st innings — West Indies' first fast bowler five-for in India since 1994 — confirmed that the Hyderabad bilateral was not entirely one-sided in its bowling: Holder's 5/56 giving West Indies their only bilateral bowling landmark in a series that India won by an innings (Rajkot) and 10 wickets (Hyderabad), both matches inside three days.

India vs West Indies Tests Oct 2018 in Context

India's 2-0 bilateral win against West Indies in October 2018 — Shaw 134 debut, Kohli 139, Jadeja 100*, Kuldeep 5/57, India 100th home Test win at Rajkot; Umesh 10 match wickets Hyderabad, Holder 5/56 (first WI quick 5-fer India since 1994), India winning 10 wickets — confirmed India's bilateral home dominance in the 2018-19 bilateral programme that preceded their Australia tour (December 2018 - January 2019, India won 2-1, their first Test series win in Australia). The October 2018 bilateral's individual milestones (Shaw's debut century; India's 100th home win; Umesh's 10-wicket match; Holder's 5-for) gave the bilateral its multiple bilateral landmarks alongside the 2-0 result that India's bilateral home programme consistently produced against visiting teams in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 bilateral years.