Australia all out for 241; India need 50 to win

A brave rear-guard action by the last wicket Australian pair comes to end after Ravindra Jadeja dismisses Nathan Lyon leaving the hosts 50 to win the first Test at Chennai


Mumbai
A Correspondent

Debutant Moises Henriques, who delayed the inevitable with a fighting innings on a difficult track to take the match into the fifth and final day, remained unbeaten on 81.

R Ashwin's second five-wicket haul helped India decimate the Aussie top and middle-order yesterday.

Ashwin grabbed five for 90 and his current match haul of 12 wickets helped India reduce Australia to 175 for nine before Henriques-Lyon provided some rear-guard action to ensure that the game went into the final day.
 

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