Tinu Yohannan put India on top with his first spell of the tour. His control was impeccable; he hummed in on a steady off-stump line and ensured that the West Indian openers did not quite get going. As many as 50 of the 60 deliveries he bowled hit a good length. He gifted nothing pitched up to drive over the infield. India had a problem with their fifth bowler though, and Carl Hooper recognized this by feasting on the men who shared that duty. Forty three of his 76 runs came off Virendra Sehwag, Sourav Ganguly and Dinesh Mongia, off the 31 balls he faced from them. In contrast, the 31 balls he faced from Yohannan, Zaheer Khan and Ajit Agarkar fetched him 19 runs.

India stuck to a plan against Hooper, giving him nothing to play square-of-the-wicket; only seven of the 75 deliveries he faced were short. But he was in such good touch that he scored at a strike-rate of 93% against good-length balls, scoring 56 runs off 60 such deliveries.

The Indian batsmen had it relatively easy, with 31% of the West Indian bowling being pitched on leg-and-middle or further down leg. The pacers suffered from a poverty of aggression and a lack of control, bowling just one yorker in the entire innings, and only one short ball to Dinesh Mongia, the Indian top-scorer. It's a pity they didn't take a cue from Yohannan.

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