Indian cricket team spinner Kuldeep Yadav scripted history with a brilliant five-wicket haul on Day 3 of the second Test match against West Indies on Sunday.

Kuldeep became the fastest left-arm wrist spinner to claim 5 five-wicket hauls in Test cricket. He currently has 5 five-wicket hauls in the longest format of the sport – the most by any left-arm wrist spinner along with England’s Johnny Wardle. However, while Wardle achieved the feat in 28 matches, Kuldeep was able to reach the milestone in just 15 Tests.

Most five-fers by left arm wrist spinners (Tests)

5 – Kuldeep Yadav (15 Tests)

5 – Johnny Wardle (28)

4 – Paul Adams (45)

Kuldeep Yadav led a clinical bowling performance to pick 5-82, his fifth five-wicket haul in the format, as India bowled out the West Indies for 248 in 81.5 overs on Day 3 of the second and final Test at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Sunday.

With a commanding first-innings lead of 270 runs on a pitch which didn’t offer much turn and bounce, India have enforced the follow-on, leaving the West Indies with 49 overs to survive in the day and an uphill mountain to climb for pushing the match into day four.

Kuldeep, in supreme control with his guile, variations and drift, turned the tide for India in the morning session with a decisive burst, removing Shai Hope, Tevin Imlach and Justin Graves in quick succession.

A late ninth-wicket stand worth 46 runs between Khary Pierre and Anderson Phillip offered brief resistance, but Jasprit Bumrah struck immediately after lunch with a peach to clean up the former.

The final wicket partnership of 27 runs tested India’s patience, with Phillip defending stoutly and Jayden Seales counter-attacking against Kuldeep. Seales eventually fell lbw to a well-disguised googly from Kuldeep, giving him his fifth wicket in a spell of 26.5 overs and sealing India’s big lead as well as their decision to enforce the follow-on.

(With IANS inputs)