IND vs WI 1st Test match | Siraj, Bumrah land early blows as West Indies slip to 90/5 at lunch on day one

Mohammed Siraj (3/19) and Jasprit Bumrah (1/24) ran by a frail West Indies top-order earlier than Kuldeep Yadav (1/7) struck on the stroke of lunch to depart the guests tottering at 90/5 at lunch on day one of many first Test in opposition to India in Ahmedabad on Thursday (October 2, 2025).

Siraj returned 7-3-19-3 to wreak havoc within the visiting camp nonetheless reeling from their lowest Test rating of 27 within the final outing, whereas Bumrah gained his battle in opposition to John Campbell (8) in his first spell and Kuldeep cleaned up Shai Hope (26).

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

It wasn’t a inexperienced high floor on the match day morning with the pitch bearing a extra brown-ish look and the bowlers didn’t get a lot off the floor with the brand new ball.

The first breakthrough got here off a fairly innocuous fifth supply of the fourth over from Siraj, in need of a size which bounced further. Tagenarine Chanderpaul (0) moved throughout to information it down the leg however Dhruv Jurel put in a dive to gather a clear seize on his proper.

Bumrah had Campbell caught behind on what regarded like a tricky name made by the third umpire Paul Reiffel within the seventh over, after Shubman Gill opted for a evaluate.

Bumrah drew Campbell ahead on a supply that straightened and had his bat squeezed between entrance pad and the ball. The replays confirmed two spikes, with Campbell’s bat hitting the pads and turning inside concurrently when the ball hit the sting and deviated off its course.

Bumrah had begun with some harmful swing motion within the first over troubling Campbell, however the left-handed opener cracked two fours in his second over to stage phrases. The first was pushed down the bottom whereas the second was flicked off the pads.

Brandon King performed a number of good pictures in his transient 15-ball 13 which included three fours however a horrible name of shouldering arms to a Siraj supply, bowled with a scrambled seam once more to get the ball in to the batter, despatched his center stump cartwheeling within the tenth over.

Having been struck on the up for a 4 by Alick Athanaze (12) by covers earlier, Siraj bowled one on the same size however this time nearer to the batter who went once more for a drive, solely to edge it behind to KL Rahul on the second slip, with West Indies crumbling to 42 for 4.

Kuldeep outfoxed Hope with one which turned in from exterior the off and beat his inside edge to crash into the wickets.

Lunch scoreboard

West Indies: John Campbell c Dhruv Jurel b Bumrah 8 Tagenarine Chanderpaul c Dhruv Jurel b Siraj 0 Alick Athanaze c Rahul b Siraj 12 Brandon King b Siraj 13 Roston Chase batting 22 Shai Hope b Kuldeep Yadav 26 Extras: (B-4, LB-5) 9 Total:(For 5 wickets in 23.2 Overs) 90 Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-20, 3-39, 4-42, 5-90.

Bowling: Jasprit Bumrah 8-3-24-1, Mohammed Siraj 7-3-19-3, Nitish Kumar Reddy 4-1-16-0, Ravindra Jadeja 3-0-15-0, Kuldeep Yadav 1.2-0-7-1.