Ravichandran Ashwin struck in the first over of the batting powerplay when he clean bowled Marlon Samuels with a superb off-spinner that just clipped the bails off the stumps.
The dismissal took Samuels and the umpires so much by surprise that the third umpire was asked to make the call.
Samuels hit a six and 7 fours in his 93-ball 71.
Ashwin had opener Kieran Powell caught by Shikhar Dhawan at short fine-leg.
Powell went for a sweep shot but instead got a top edge and Dhawan took a simple catch.
Powell added 117 runs with Marlon Samuels for the second wicket to lay the platform for a formidable score.
Powell and Samuels brought up their 100-run stand off 135 balls.
Samuels got to his 23rd ODI fifty off 73 balls while Powell reached his 5th ODI half-century off 66 balls.
The partnership between Powell and Samuels came after the early dismissal of opener Johnson Charles.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave Indian an early breakthrough when he clean bowled Charles with a fine inswinger in the fifth over of the match.
Kumar brought the ball to come in a long way with the angle from good length, Charles went for the drive but the ball went through the big gap to uproot the leg stump.
The breakthrough came after Indian captain MS Dhoni won the toss and chose to bowl.
Both India and the West Indies are unchanged from the last match.
It will be two-paced wicket and the colour of the pitch is changing since morning. First few overs it will be tough but as the day progresses, it will be good for batting.
Teams:
India: MS Dhoni (Capt.), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Mohammed Shami.
West Indies: Dwayne Bravo (Capt.), Kieran Powell, Johnson Charles, Marlon Samuels, Darren Bravo, Lendl Simmons, Darren Sammy, Jason Holder, Sunil Narine, Ravi Rampaul, Veerasammy Permaul.
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