Rohit and Dhoni steered the Indian first innings to 120/5 at lunch.
Shane Shillingford won the first session of the day for his side. With the aid of low bounce and his top-spinning doosra, he plucked up the wickets of four top-order batsmen and the pitch is keeping a bit low on Day 2 itself.
India lost their fifth wicket when Shillingford had Virat Kohli push forward to defend the off-break and it lobbed up off the inside edge on to pad and ended up in the hands of Kieran Powell at forward short leg.
Shillingford silenced the Eden Gardens crowd by trapping Sachin Tendulkar plumb in front of the wicket.
Shillingford flighted the doosra and pitched it on middle, Tendulkar tried to defend from his crease and the ball straightened past the outside edge and hit the back leg quite high. The impact was too high, the ball would have gone over the top, but umpire Nigel Llong did not think so.
Sheldon Cottrell took his first Test wicket when he had Cheteshwar Pujara caught behind by Denesh Ramdin. Pujara was trying to hit a rising delivey over third man but ended up edging the delivery to Ramdin.
Sachin Tendulkar walked in to a thunderous applause after Shane Shillingford had Murali Vijay stumped by Denesh Ramdin.
Shillingford lured Vijay out with a tossed up ball who did not pick the straighter one and has walked right past it and became Shillingford's 50th Test victim.
Shikhar Dhawan edged a Shillingford delivery onto his leg-stump as India lost their first wicket in the third over of the day.
The day's play started with openers Dhawan and Murali Vijay resuming the Indian first innings at 37/0.
On Day 1, Dhawan and Vijay had no problem whatsoever in negotiating a dozen overs, raking up 37 runs in the process after debutant Mohammed Shami set the Eden on fire by picking up four wickets to shoot out the West Indies for 234 in their first innings.
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