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- Updated: December 20, 2016
Lunch England 477 and 97 for 0 (Cook 47*, Jennings 46*) trail India 759 for 7 by 185 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Alastair Cook and Keaton Jennings survived unscathed to lunch as India pressed for a 4-0 series win on the final day of the Chennai Test. The pitch was a loyal friend to batsmen by Indian fifth-day standards, but the two openers still had to get through some testing times against the various challenges posed by India’s three-man spin attack. At lunch, England were 97 for no loss, still 185 short of making India bat again.
India created one clear-cut chance and one quarter-chance in the first session. In the third over of the morning, R Ashwin drew Cook forward with flight, beat him with dip, and found his edge with sharp turn, only for the ball to bounce off Parthiv Patel’s left glove. The ball would probably have carried to Virat Kohli at slip had Parthiv not gone for the catch himself.
Then, when Jennings had …
