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India v Australia - Australia tour of India - 1st Test – Day 4 – Live Score and Update

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Australia 380 & 232/9 (84.0 ov) v India 572 - Australia lead by 40 runs with 1 wicket remaining
At stumps on the fourth day of play in the ongoing first Test between hosts India and tourist Australia, the Aussies lead by 40 runs with only a wicket in hand in their second innings, as they ended the day with 232 runs on the board at MA Chidambaram Stadium,
Chepauk, Chennai.
India now have a firm grip in the match after the restricted their opposition on 380 runs and then ended the third day of play by posting 515 runs for the loss of eight wickets with skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 on 206 and B Kumar on 16.
This was a great first innings total by India, and they knew they needed to better this today by adding another 50 odd runs.
The two batsmen continued their impressive form, hammering the Aussies all around the park before Dhoni became the first casualty of the day, losing his wicket after scoring 224 runs. At the time of this wicket, India had managed to post 546 runs.
Later, with an intimidating score of 572 India were bowled-out.
This was still on for the Australians as they needed to play a potent innings against a very aggressive spin attack.
The tourists lost their first wicket with only 34 runs on the board when they lost http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 for 17.
The second wicket fell when the Aussies had reached 64 runs when opener EJM Cowan perished after belting a knock of 32 runs.
A run later, the Australians lost their third wicket of the day on the demise of PJ Hughes for nil.
The partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978 took the score to 101, before this partnership also met its end on the wicket of Warner for 23.
MS Wade was cheap as he could score only eight runs before finding his way back to the pavilion.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 and MC Henriques then took their side towards 131 before the Australian skipper was left awestruck on a fantastic delivery by Ashwin. He walked back after hitting 31 runs with the bat.
As the rest of the batsmen succumbed without putting much of a fight, Australia ended the day with MC Henriques unbeaten on 75 and NM Lyon on eight.

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