LONDON: India were set a target of 458 to win the first Test after England declared their second innings on 269 for six after tea on the fourth day at Lord's here on Sunday.
No side has made more in the 2,000 match history of Test cricket to win a Test in the fourth innings than the 418 for seven posted by the West Indies against Australia in Antigua in 2002/03.
Matt Prior was 103 not out and Stuart Broad 74 not out, their unbroken seventh-wicket partnership worth 162 at nearly a run-a-ball, when England captain Andrew Strauss declared for the second time in the match. Ishant Sharma led an India attack missing Zaheer Khan, off the field as he has been for much of this match because of a hamstring injury, with four wickets for 59 runs in 22 overs.
This is the first of a four-Test series.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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