India need 378runs to win, England need nine wickets at Lord's
Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman were made to look ungainly, but they batted out 131 deliveries between them in the final session of the fourth day.
Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar were not available to bat in their usual positions because of injury and illness. Rahul Dravid 34runs on crease along with very very special VVS Laxman 32runs unbeaten.
England batted very well and Matt Prior make not out 103runs and Stuart Broad also batted very good and make 74runs unbeaten, now England bowlers need nine wickets to win over Indian team.
Prior and Broad counterattacked, India did decently in the absence of the injured Zaheer Khan. It helped that England were in their shell at the start of the day even though the ball hardly swung then.
During that period Praveen Kumar dismissed Alastair Cook for a rare single-digit score, and Andrew Strauss fell to his second ordinary sweep off Harbhajan Singh.
The next hour belonged to Ishant Sharma, no matter where this matches goes, the spell of 5-3-4-3 he bowled just before lunch.
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