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- Updated: December 19, 2016
Lunch India 463 for 5 (Nair 122*, Ashwin 9*) trail England 477 by 14 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Karun Nair brought up his maiden Test hundred as India inched towards the first-innings lead on the fourth morning of the Chennai Test. Nair, on 71 overnight, batted through a first session in which runs were hard to come by – India scored at 2.67 an over, compared to 3.76 on day three – and went to lunch on 122. With five sessions left in the match, India trailed England by 14 runs with five wickets in hand.
England took only one wicket in the session, Liam Dawson picking up his first in Tests with an arm ball that hurried into M Vijay to hit him on the back pad in front of middle stump. Vijay consulted with Nair and reviewed, perhaps unwisely, because this was the definition of plumb. Earlier in the morning he had stood his ground when umpire Simon Fry had failed to spot a thin edge off Stuart Broad, perhaps aware that England had no reviews left.
Vijay saw Nair through a nervy period in the nineties, exhorting him from the …
