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- Updated: December 16, 2016
Toss England chose to bat v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
England handed Liam Dawson, the spin-bowling allrounder, a debut and chose to bat in the fifth Test in Chennai. Despite the match beginning four days after a cyclone ripped through the city, the ground staff at the MA Chidambaram Stadium managed to get the ground and pitch ready in time, producing a surface that promised to be good to bat on, mostly dry with a grassy patch on a bouncer length.
The inclusion of Dawson changed the composition of England’s attack. The left-arm spinner replaced the seam-bowling allrounder Chris Woakes, meaning England played three seamers and three spinners. …
