A defiant half-century by opener Murali Vijay kept alive India’s hopes of setting England a tough fourth-innings chase in a tense second test at Lord’s on Saturday.
The second match of the five-test series remains finely poised heading into Sunday’s fourth day, the visitors finishing at 169 for four.
Vijay (59) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (12) will resume on Sunday with India 145 runs ahead with six second-innings wickets left as they aim to extend England’s run without a test victory to 10 matches and go 1-0 up in the series.
Having taken a 24-run lead, England bowled with greater accuracy than in India’s first innings, when they wasted their advantage on a green-tinged pitch that is now showing a touch of variable bounce.
