Siraj and Bumrah shared seven wickets as hosts dominate opening day of first Test<\/p>\n
Mohammed Siraj picked up four wickets and Jasprit Bumrah three as India bowled out the touring West Indies for just 162, before reaching stumps at 2-121 on the opening day of the first Test.<\/p>\n
Siraj took 4-40 off 14 overs and fellow paceman Bumrah picked up 3-42 as the visitors were shot out in 44.1 overs in Ahmedabad on Thursday.<\/p>\n
West Indies No.7 Justin Greaves top-scored with 32 for the tourists.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Left-arm wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav picked 2-25 in 6.2 overs.<\/p>\n
Spend a day in Perth with Cameron Green<\/p>\n
By stumps, India trailed by just 41 runs. Lokesh Rahul was unbeaten on 53 and skipper Shubman Gill was 18 not out.<\/p>\n
After choosing to bat, West Indies lost three wickets in the first 10 overs and five wickets by lunch as the top order looked to play shots.<\/p>\n
Siraj grabbed 3-19 in the morning, but Bumrah took a couple of overs to find his rhythm.<\/p>\n
West Indies opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul was caught behind for an 11-ball duck.<\/p>\n
Bumrah struck in the seventh over to remove the other opener, John Campbell, caught behind for eight.<\/p>\n
Captain Roston Chase and Shai Hope added 48 for the fifth wicket, until Yadav bowled Hope for 26.\u00a0After lunch, Chase was caught behind off Siraj for 24.<\/p>\n
Greaves and debutant Khary Pierre (11 off 34) helped their side pass 150, before Pierre was trapped lbw by Washington Sundar.<\/p>\n
India’s innings began after tea, and Rahul put on 68 off 110 balls with Yashasvi Jaiswal (36 off 54).<\/p>\n
Sai Sudarshan, playing at his Indian Premier League home ground, was lbw for just seven as the home side slipped to 2-90.<\/p>\n
Play was extended by 22 minutes because of rain, and after the resumption Rahul reached his half-century off 101 balls, despite suffering leg cramps.<\/p>\n
West Indies have not beaten India in their past 25 Test encounters \u2013 home or away \u2013 dating back to 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Siraj and Bumrah shared seven wickets as hosts dominate opening day of first Test Mohammed Siraj picked up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-186223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}