With the lunch break minutes away, Shai Hope, the middle-order batsman who was supposed to form the backbone of this fragile West Indies batting line-up, went for an expansive drive through the large vacant cover area which Kuldeep Yadav had left intentionally untenanted. But none of it arrived as the Indian pace duo of Mohammed Siraj (14-3-40-4) and Jasprit Bumrah (14-3-42-3) made inroads each time they had the ball in their hands as West Indies folded for 162 in 44.1 overs in front of a sparse crowd at Ahmedabad. Having lost their best talents in the past to franchise T20 leagues, West Indies cricket finds itself in a place where their best players are turning their backs even for white-ball cricket, with Nicholas Pooran being the recent case in point.