India, July 13 -- India batted for 119.2 overs to England's 112.3 overs. After three days of attritional play in the harsh English summer, under a sky with barely any cloud, the Dukes ball getting repeatedly and frustratingly soft, there was nothing to separate the two sides. The teams have ended on identical first innings totals of 387, turning the Lord's Test into a second innings shoot out with two days left.

Day 3 began with KL Rahul looking the most assured while scoring one of the most classical hundreds seen in the series. Even then, as he walked through the Lord's Long Room after becoming the 100th player to have got out on exactly hundred, one could see that Rahul wasn't quite in the mood to appreciate the standing ovation, thin...