Anderson instigates India collapse

The Lancashire seamer had already claimed the useful scalps of Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar the previous night as India reached the end of the second day trailing by 153 on 145 for four.

But Anderson, playing his first home Test in three years, built on that display to claim three further wickets as India's formidable batting line-up collapsed to 201 all out shortly before lunch on the third day. The hosts were eight without loss at the break.

It earned Anderson impressive figures of five for 42, his best Test figures, while left-arm seamer Ryan Sidebottom finished with four for 65 as England's inexperienced attack - without injury victims Steve Harmison, Andrew Flintoff and Matthew Hoggard - tore through India's formidable batting line-up.

The tourists would have hoped to have gone past England's disappointing total of 298 with Sourav Ganguly at the crease and VVS Laxman and Mahendra Dhoni to follow.

Former India captain Ganguly added only nine runs to his overnight 25 before being outwitted by Anderson with an inswinger which nipped back between bat and pad and crashed into his stumps in the sixth over of the day.

It gave England a flying start and they built on that momentum with Sidebottom ending nightwatchman Rudra Pratap Singh's 59 minutes of defiance four overs later.

Singh had stuck around long enough to claim his highest Test score of 17, which included two boundaries, but was tempted into driving a shorter-length ball which flew high in the air and Anderson collected at mid-off.

Perhaps the key wicket of the morning fell only three overs later when Anderson dismissed Dhoni, one of the most dangerous strokemakers in world cricket, for a duck with a short ball he could only fend to Ian Bell at third slip.

That dismissal left Laxman batting with the tail, and Anil Kumble became Sidebottom's fourth victim before Anderson finished things off by dismissing Zaheer Khan.