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In India's noteworthy 1000th ODI match and Rohit Sharma's first task as a full-time ODI captain, the group beat West Indies by six wickets in their pursuit of 177 to take a 1-0 series lead.

Previous Indian chief Sunil Gavaskar on Sunday evaluated the exhibition of India's new white-ball captain Rohit Sharma in the influential position. At the same time he called attention to an area of worry in his captaincy.

In India's noteworthy 1000th ODI match and Rohit's first task as a full-time ODI captain, the group beat West Indies by six wickets in their pursuit of 177 to take a 1-0 series lead.

Addressing Star Sports after India's triumph at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Gavaskar hailed Rohit's captaincy decisions with his bowling changes and field arrangements yet conceded that he really wants to station better defenders at critical positions.

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"I think he was awesome. He made the right sort of bowling changes. Field arrangements were great. Perhaps the one are that he should be checking out keeping the right defender at the position. Now and then you need to have a defender who is exceptionally speedy, who has a decent arm on the limit and they can save the limits and get the ball in and ensure that the additional run isn't there," he said.

Virat Kohli had a frustrating excursion in Rohit Sharma's first match as full-time Team India white-ball skipper. The previous India chief was excused for eight runs off four conveyances at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday. The previous captain smacked two balls for limits yet confused the fourth conveyance and was sent back to the structure by Alzarri Joseph. Endeavoring to snare ball to the fine-leg limit, he wound up top edging it to the defender in the profound. Talking on Star Sports, previous cricketer Sunil Gavaskar investigated Kohli's excusal and expressed he was forced to bear comparable conveyances in South Africa also.

"I felt that even the South Africans appeared to be hoping to do in one-day cricket, perhaps not such a great amount in Test cricket, to attempt to skip Virat Kohli. Since he is one of those batsman who doesn't actually duck. He loves to play the snare shot, which is one where you can't actually be in charge", said the amazing player.

"In this occasion he doesn't hit the nail on the head. He picked the ball which bobbed somewhat more and afterward he expected so it wasn't exactly of the center of the bat. It went off the edge and the catch was taken. Thus, I feel he ought to be ready to confront somewhat more in the excess matches", he further added.

India effectively pursued down the objective of 177 runs, coming to 178 for four out of 28 overs.

During the pursuit, opener Rohit crushed 60 runs off 51 balls. In the interim, Suryakumar Yadav and Deepak Hooda constructed an unbeaten organization to take India over the line. In the mean time, a four-wicket pull by Yuzvendra Chahal assisted India with bowling out the guests for 176 in 43.5 overs.