We wanted to give game time to our ODI players: Rohit

India captain Rohit Sharma justified playing ODI specialists ahead of him and Virat Kohli in the first match at Kensington Oval. India defeated the West Indies by five wickets, with spinners claiming ten of the fifteen wickets that fell on a rank turner with a lot of bounce and carry.

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