England have beaten India by 22 runs on a final day of simmering tension and high drama in the third Test at Lord’s to move 2-1 up in the series with two Tests to play.

Shoaib Bashir ended the hour-long resistance of Mohammed Siraj to seal victory, India’s No. 11 playing a defensive stroke before the ball trickled down the face of his bat and rolled on to the stumps, dislodging a single bail, as he watched on in horror.

As the England players celebrated, Ravindra Jadeja trudged off the field after making a valiant unbeaten 61.

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The hosts had looked on course for a comfortable victory when they reduced India to 8-112 at lunch, but Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah battled for nearly two hours to inch their team towards a target of 193.

Jadeja was given out lbw to Chris Woakes on 26 but the decision was overturned on review prompting loud cheers from the many Indian fans in a near-capacity fifth day crowd

England finally made the breakthrough when Bumrah (5) skied an attempted pull off Ben Stokes and was caught by substitute fielder Sam Cook.

Siraj (4) survived 29 deliveries as Jadeja farmed the bowling, but fell to Bashir off his 30th.

It was Bashir’s last act of the series. The left-arm spinner broke the little finger on his left hand while attempting a caught-and-bowled off Jadeja in the first innings and already been booked in for surgery.

“It was great that Bash was able to get that last wicket with everything he had to deal with this week,” said Stokes.

“He’s 21 years old and he’s got a very badly broken finger. It’s very disappointing for us as a team and for him, but I think the courage that he showed (was outstanding).”

Bashir batted in England’s second innings and Stokes added: “There would be a lot of people who might not have been brave enough to go out there and face Bumrah.”

First to commiserate with with the distraught Siraj was Zak Crawley, who had been involved in an angry exchange with Siraj and other Indian fielders after time-wasting late on Saturday night.

That led to Siraj being given a demerit point and fined 15 per cent of his match fee by match referee Richie Richardson earlier on Monday for his send-off to Crawley’s opening partner Ben Duckett on Sunday morning.

Four demerit points in a 24-month period triggers a ban, with the 31-year-old Siraj now on two after his altercation with Travis Head in the Adelaide Test last December.

Duckett’s was the first of 14 wickets on Sunday which led to India resuming on Monday morning on 4-58, 135 runs short of victory.

Rishabh Pant, batting with a finger injury that had prevented him wicket-keeping, played an extraordinary one-handed straight drive for four off Archer to move to nine, but the fast bowler responded two balls later with an excellent delivery which uprooted his off stump.

Stokes snared KL Rahul lbw for 39 following a review, then Washington Sundar went for a duck, Archer leaping to his right to take a superb one-handed catch off his own bowling.

Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy then frustrated England with solid defence in a partnership of 30 until Woakes found the edge of Reddy’s bat just before lunch.

“A little bit tighter than I would have liked,” Stokes said.

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Archer bowled 39.2 overs across the two India innings, taking 5-107 as England won by 22 runs late on Monday’s final day. It was his first Test back after a four-and-a-half-year absence and his pace and impact hugely encouraged England fans hoping to see him running at Perth in November.

Stokes went with a hunch to hand Archer the ball first thing when India resumed on 4-58 chasing 193 on the final day.

Archer claimed the crucial wicket of Rishabh Pant, knocking his off-stump out of the ground, then took a leaping catch off his own bowling to see off Washington Sundar and put England on top.

“I just had this gut feeling that something was going to happen in Jof’s first time back in the Test match team, sometimes your gut works, I guess,” England captain Stokes said.

“Every time he gets announced that he’s going to bowl, you just hear the ground erupt and when he turns it on, the feeling in the game just changes. What an amazing effort from him to get through those overs. It’s great to have him back.”

Archer regularly bowled at speeds of up to 145 kph. But he was managed by Stokes, never doing more than five-over spells and spaced well apart.

“It was pretty hectic, for the first game back,” he said. “I probably bowled a few more overs than I thought I would’ve but every single one mattered today so I’m not too fussed about it.

“Managing the workload is still very hard, being told you can bowl some days and not others.

“I’m not totally out of the woods yet but it’s a good start,” he said.

Stokes bowled 44 overs himself in the match, taking 5-111, an effort and return that also bodes well for England given the balance his bowling brings to the side.

The 34-year-old admitted he was a “shadow” of his normal self following a hard five days in the Test at Headingley but he went again at Lord’s.

He followed up a nine-over spell in the morning session, in which he ended the dogged resistance of KL Rahul, with a 10-over burst after lunch, making the only breakthrough in the session by winkling out the resolute Jasprit Bumrah.

“Bowling to win a Test match for your country, if that doesn’t get you up, I don’t know what does,” Stokes said.

- With Agencies