Ahmedabad -Mohammed Siraj (4/40) missed out on a well-deserved five-for but helped India bowl a struggling West Indies out for 162 shortly before tea on the opening day of the first Test here on Thursday.

Siraj took three wickets upfront in a lethal seven-over spell in the first session and added one more post lunch but was could not complete his fifer. Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah appeared to be finding back his rhythm with the red-ball nailing a couple of yorkers to return 14-3-42-3.

Kuldeep Yadav (2/25), who had produced a jaffa to dismiss Shai Hope earlier in the morning session, took the final wicket of the innings when he got Jomel Warrican (8) caught behind reverse-sweeping.

An early tea was taken as the West Indies were bundled out in 44.1 overs on a pitch that appeared to hav

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