India's Kuldeep Yadav celebrating after taking the wicket of England's captain Ben Stokes during the first day of the fifth and last Test match at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala on Thursday — AFP DHARAMSALA, India, Mar 07 (AFP): Kuldeep Yadav took five wickets to bundle out England for 218, with India's batsmen starting strongly on a dominant opening day for the hosts in the fifth Test on Thursday.
Yadav returned figures of 5-72 and, along with fellow spinner Ravichandran Ashwin who took four wickets in his landmark 100th Test, bowled out the tourists in just 57.4 overs at the picturesque Dharamsala stadium.
India reached 135-1 at stumps, still trailing England by 83 runs.
Skipper Rohit Sharma, on 52, and Shubman Gill, on 26, were batting at the close of play after in-form Yashasvi Jaiswal fell for 57.
The left-handed Jaiswal looked assured until his departure as he smashed spinner Shoaib Bashir for three sixes in an over, and consolidated his position at the top of the series batting with 712 runs.
Bashir, a rookie off-spinner, got Jaiswal stumped to end a 104-run opening stand.
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