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Fighting century by Dravid

LONDON, July 23 (AFP) A fighting century by one drop bat Rahil Dravid helped India to avoid follow on on the third day of their first Test against England at Lord’s here today.

Dravid batted with great courage and responsibility in a bid to help India to avert follow on after the tourists lost three key wickets with the addition of only 24 runs, including the prize wicket of Sachin Tendulkar (34). The departure of Sureish Raina for a duck in the 57th over saw India reeling at 183 for 5. But Dravid shared a vital 57-run partnership for the fifth wicket with M.S. Dhoni before the Indian skipper was out for 28.

India, in reply to England’s first innings total of 474 for 8 declared, were 282 for 8 shortly before close. At the wicket were Dravid (100 n.o off 186 balls with 14 boundaries) and Praveen Kumar (17 n.o). Sachin Tendulkar's latest bid to become the first batsman to score 100 international hundreds ended in failure when he was dismissed for 34 in the first Test against England at Lord's here on Saturday.

The 38-year-old Tendulkar came into this match having scored 51 Test centuries and 48 in one-day internationals -- both records.

He had looked in good touch while stroking six fours before fast bowler Stuart Broad, who has taken all three India first innings wickets to fall so far, produced a good length delivery that Tendulkar could only edge low to Graeme Swann at second slip. It was scant reward for Tendulkar who was rested from India's recent tour of the West Indies, and spent much of the interveninh time practising at Lord's or the capacity 28,500 crowd who had come hoping he would crown the 2,000th Test of all-time and the 100th between England and India with his ton of tons.

Score Board

	ENGLAND - 1ST INNINGS
	 (overnight: 127-2)
A. Strauss c Sharma b Zaheer Khan 	 	 22
A. Cook lbw b Zaheer Khan. 		 	 12
J. Trott lbw b Kumar 			 	 70
K. Pietersen not out 				202
I. Bell c Dhoni b Kumar 		 	 45
E. Morgan c Dhoni b Kumar 		 	 00
M. Prior c Dhoni b Kumar 		 	 71
S. Broad lbw b Kumar 			 	 00
G. Swann b Raina 			 	 24
C. Tremlett not out 			 	 04
Extras (b14, lb8, w1, nb1) 		 	 24
Total (8 wkts dec, 131.4 overs, 602 mins)  	474

Did not bat: J Anderson

Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Cook), 2-62 (Strauss), 3-160 (Trott), 4-270 (Bell), 5-270 (Morgan),
		 6-390 (Prior), 7-390 (Broad), 8-451 (Swann).

Bowling: Zaheer 13.3-8-18-2; Kumar 40.3-10-106-5; Sharma 32-5-128-0 (1w); Harbhajan 35-3-152-0;
	 Dhoni 8-1-23-0 (1nb); Raina 2.4-1-25-1.A. Mukund

		INDIA - 1ST INNINGS
		 (Overnight: 17-0)
A. Mukund b Broad 				 49
G. Gambhir b Broad  				 15
R. Dravid not out 				 59
S. Tendulkar c Swann b Broad 			 34
VVS Laxman c Trott b Tremlett 			 10
S. Raina lbw b Swann 				 00
MS Dhoni not out 				 04
Extras (b-5, lb-7, w-1, nb-9) 			 22
Total (five wkts, 62 overs) 			193

Fall of wickets: 1-63 2-77 3-158 4-182 5-183

Still to bat: Harbhajan Singh,Zaheer Khan, I. Sharma, P.Kumar.

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