West Indies started their first innings in the final session of the day, with openers Kraigg Braithwaite and Tagenarine Chanderpaul taking to the field. India had ended their first innings at 438 runs.
In the chase of 204 runs, Sunrisers was off to a disastrous start as pacer Trent Boult dismissed Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Tripathi for ducks in the first over itself, reducing SRH to 0/2 in 0.5 overs.