The 33-year-old Samuels, who last played in an ODI for West Indies seven months back, equalled his career-best score of 126 en route his sixth century in this format, adding 165 runs for the fourth wicket with wicketkeeper-batsman Denesh Ramdin (61).
In the end, 23 runs came of the final two overs to help the Caribbeans reach a big score on a flat batting track.
Samuels' runs came off 116 balls with 11 fours and four sixes as he paced his innings to perfection reaching the milestone in 99 balls. He found an able ally in Ramdin, who also kept the momentum going with a 59-ball-61 that had five fours and two sixes.
While Samuels' first 50 runs came off 61 balls, the next 50 came off in only 38 balls for the Jamaican, who now has two ODI tons against the Indians.
While Mohammed Shami had the best haul of four for 66 in nine overs, it was Bhuvneshwar Kumar with figures of 0/38 in 10 overs, who had the decent figures among the bowlers.
Veteran leggie Amit Mishra (1/72) got a bit of hammering when he was bowling with the field restrictions during the middle overs.
West Indies upped the ante in between overs 31-40 which yielded them 89 runs when Mishra and other spinner Ravindra Jadeja (1/58) were operating in tandem.
Samuels was brilliant against the spinners as he lofted Mishra off successive deliveries over long-on and long-off for maximum. He completed his 50 with another six off Suresh Raina.
His 100 though came with a gentle tap for a single off Jadeja and then celebrated it with couple of boundaries off Shami.
After being put into bat, it was skipper Dwayne Bravo, who played and missed a few, had only five scoring shots in his 17 --- four of them boundaries before he was snapped at first slip by Shikhar Dhawan off Mohammed Shami's bowling.
His opening partner Dwayne Smith (46 off 45 balls) presented a much better account of himself than what he gave during the recently concluded Champions League T20.
Smith hit four boundaries out of which three were off Mohit Sharma while other was hit off Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Smith also launched into his CSK teammate Ravindra Jadeja hitting him for two huge sixes including one over long-off and the other straight into the sightscreens.
However the Indian left-arm spinner had the last laugh as he enticed Smith into attempting a wild heave and was cleaned up in the process.
Smith had a 64-run partnership with Darren Bravo (28). Left-hander Bravo looked in good touch as he hoisted leggie Amit Mishra for a six but was holed out in the deep trying to repeat the shot.
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