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• AUS V PAK, 1ST TEST, BRISBANE
  
  Pakistan's terrific chase ends 40 short
  
  Australia 429 & 202/5d
  Pakistan 142 & 450 (145.0 ov)
  Australia won by 39 runs
  
  
  
  
  
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  • Report - Starc gives Australia relief
  • Gallery - Famine, then feast
  • Highest fourth-innings totals
  • Extra half-hour irks David Saker

Asad Shafiq was dismissed for 137, Australia v Pakistan, 1st Test, Brisbane, 5th day, December 19, 2016

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England 477
India 463/5 (135.0 ov)
India trail by 14 runs with 5 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

	India 1st innings		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	KL Rahul	c Buttler b Rashid	199	311	16	3	63.98
	PA Patel†	c Buttler b Ali	71	112	7	0	63.39
	CA Pujara	c Cook b Stokes	16	29	3	0	55.17
	V Kohli*	c Jennings b Broad	15	29	1	0	51.72
	KK Nair	not out	122	217	11	1	56.22
	M Vijay	lbw b Dawson	29	76	4	0	38.15
	R Ashwin	not out	9	36	1	0	25.00
	Extras	(lb 2)	2
	Total	(5 wickets; 135 overs)	463	(3.42 runs per over)

To batRA Jadeja, A Mishra, I Sharma, UT Yadav

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Fall of wickets 1-152 (Patel, 41.5 ov), 2-181 (Pujara, 50.5 ov), 3-211 (Kohli, 60.4 ov), 4-372 (Rahul, 102.3 ov), 5-435 (Vijay, 123.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	SCJ Broad	23	6	55	1	2.39	108	6	0
	JT Ball	15	1	50	0	3.33	61	6	0
	MM Ali	24	1	96	1	4.00	89	10	1
	BA Stokes	17	2	63	1	3.70	69	8	0
	AU Rashid	18	0	82	1	4.55	63	8	0
	LA Dawson	36	4	103	1	2.86	146	3	3
	JE Root	2	0	12	0	6.00	7	2	0

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KL Rahul became the second Indian and ninth overall to be dismissed on 199, in the Chennai Test against England​

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KL Rahul sinks to his knees after missing a double-century, India v England, 5th Test, Chennai, 3rd day

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England 477
India 530/5 (151.0 ov)
India lead by 53 runs with 5 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

India RR 3.50
Last 10 ovs 43/0 RR 4.30
Min overs remaining 47

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Drinks - Day 4	Current time 13:14 local, 07:44 GMT	Test Career
Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR This bowler Last 10 ovs Karun Nair (rhb) 159 252 17 1 63.09 25 (29b) 23 (20b) Ravichandran Ashwin (rhb) 38 97 3 1 39.17 6 (16b) 19 (40b)		Mat Runs HS Ave 3 176 159* 88.00 44 1787 124 35.03
Bowlers O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s This spell Adil Rashid (lb) 22.0 1 94 1 4.27 80 9 0 4-1-12-0 Liam Dawson (sla) 38.0 4 108 1 2.84 154 3 3 2-0-5-0		Mat Wkts BBI Ave 10 38 5/64 41.23 1 1 1/108 108.00

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Current partnership 95 runs, 27.2 overs, RR: 3.47 (Ashwin 38, Nair 56)

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Last bat M Vijay lbw b Dawson 29 (76b 4x4 0x6) SR: 38.15
Fall of wicket 435/5 (123.4 ov); Partnership: 63 runs, 21.1 overs, RR: 2.97 (Vijay 29, Nair 34)

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Umpire reviews remaining India 1 (0 successful, 1 unsuccessful); England 0 (0 successful, 2 unsuccessful)

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[Joseph James]

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13 hours ago
Pakistan, who lost nine wickets in the last session v NZ two weeks ago, fall 39 short chasing 490. What a mad, beautiful team. #AusvPak

[Joseph James]

303 by Karun Nair:
+ Second Indian player after Virender Sehwag (twice) to score a triple hundred for India
+ Highest maiden Test century for India
+ Highest for India against England

759/7 dec is India's highest total in Test cricket eclipsing 726/9 against Sri Lanka in Mumbai(BS) in 2009

It is also the highest total against England surpassing 751/5 dec by WI in St John's in 2004

It was the second instance of India having four 100+ stands in an innings after four against WI in Kanpur in 1979

This was the fourth instance of a team scoring 600 or more in consecutive innings:
Previous instances:
Aus v Eng, 1946
WI v Ind, 1948
Ind v SL, 2009

Six Indian players scoring 100s in a series:
v NZ in Ind, 1955/56
v Eng in Ind, 1963/64
v WI in Ind, 1978/79
v Eng in Ind, 2016 *

R Ashwin became the second Indian after Kapil Dev (vs Pak, 1979) to score 250+ runs & take 25+ wkts in a same series.

Highest individual scores for India:
319 V Sehwag v SA, Chennai, 2008
309 V Sehwag v Pak, Multan, 2004
303* KARUN NAIR v Eng, Chennai 2016
293 V Sehwag v SL, Mumbai(BS), 2009
281 VVS Laxman v Aus, Kolkata, 2001
270 R Dravid v Pak, Rawalpindi, 2004
254 V Sehwag v Pak, Lahore, 2006

Highest maiden centuries:
365*G Sobers
311 B Simpson
303* K Nair
287 Tip Foster
277 B Lara
274 Zaheer Abbas

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IND V ENG, 5TH TEST, CHENNAI

Jadeja's seven seals 4-0 win for India

• LIVE SCORECARD
• Report - England lose by an innings
• England may have 'stagnated' - Cook
• Stats - Highest total in an innings defeat
• Gallery - The final act
• Chopra: Parthiv's keeping under scrutiny
• Ganguly: Jadeja India's best fielder
• 'Kohli's captaincy, India's bench strength stood out'

[Niyas Naz]

ICC Test Team of the Year
2016!