India, Aug. 3 -- Yashasvi Jaiswal struck his sixth Test hundred, Ravindra Jadeja his fifth fifty of the tour, Akash Deep his maiden Test fifty and Washington Sundar a fifty at more than a run a ball to help India set England 374 to chase and win the fifth Test and take the series 3-1.

The odds of that are high though as the record for the highest successful fourth-innings chase at the Oval is 263 even though this England team toppled 378 at Edgbaston in 2022 and 371 at Leeds in June.

England lost Zak Crawley when Mohammed Siraj produced an inswinging beauty that snuck below the opener's bat and crashed into his stumps off the last ball of the day. This was just after Crawley and Ben Duckett got to another fifty-run opening stand, their ...