AHMEDABAD: Mohammed Siraj (3/19) and Jasprit Bumrah (1/24) ran through a frail West Indies top-order before Kuldeep Yadav (1/7) struck at the stroke of lunch to leave the visitors tottering at 90/5 on day one of the first Test against India here on Thursday.

Siraj returned 7-3-19-3 to wreak havoc in the visiting camp still reeling from their lowest Test score of 27 in the last outing, while Bumrah won his battle against John Campbell (8) in his first spell and Kuldeep cleaned up Shai Hope (26).

Roston Chase, who put on 48 runs for the fifth wicket with Hope, was on 22 not out.

It wasn’t a green top surface on the match day morning with the pitch bearing a more brown-ish look and the bowlers did not get much off the surface with the new ball.

The first breakthrough came off a rather in

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