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STUART Broad and James Anderson took charge as England surged into a 2-0 series lead with an innings victory over India in the rain-ravaged Lord’s Test.
Broad (4-44) and Anderson (4-23) each bagged a notable new milestone in their stellar careers as England bowled India out for 130 on the fourth evening.
The hosts appeared set for renewed frustration when rain twice more interrupted play in a match which had suffered a firstday washout and lost almost 170 scheduled overs in all.
But after half-an-hour of morning batting in which Chris Woakes (137no) and Sam Curran collected 39 runs for a declaration on 396-7, there was time for Anderson to become the first bowler in history to take 100 Test wickets at this famous venue.
Between two further rain breaks, Broad then made the most of leaden skies to move into the top 10 all-time leading Test wickettakers, before celebrating with two further wickets in two balls, including captain Virat Kohli.
Seventh-wicket pair Hardik Pandya and Ravi Ashwin kept England waiting after tea, with a stand of 55, but Woakes quickly parted them to put his team on the home straight.
Anderson, England’s all-time leading wicket-taker, needed just five deliveries to bowl Murali Vijay with a brilliant outswinger to kickstart India’s descent to a firstinnings 107 all out.
Second time round, it took him nine as the opener completed his pair when he was caught behind off an inside edge.
The evergreen seamer then dismissed India’s other opener KL Rahul again, lbw to another one slanted in.
Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara held firm until the rain arrived. But once under way again in early afternoon, there was no stopping Broad.
In his second over he brought the edge from Rahane, and Keaton Jennings took a neat catch at third slip.
Pujara was bowled by Broad with a perfect inswinger.
Broad’s 421st Test wicket took him up to joint 10th among the all-time leading bowlers, alongside South Africans Dale Steyn and Shaun Pollock – and he soon passed them with the wicket of Virat Kohli, with debutant Ollie Pope diving forward from short-leg to take the catch.
Broad then immediately had Dinesh Karthik lbw pushing forward.
His hopes of becoming the first bowler ever to take three Test hat-tricks foundered when he fired the next one to Ashwin for four leg-side byes.
But Woakes broke the resistance of Pandya and Ashwin when he overturned an lbw decision against the former in England’s favour with the first ball of his second spell.
Then in the gathering gloom, Anderson and Woakes made short work of the last three wickets.
Captain Joe Root said: “The bowling unit was exceptional. We probably had the bowling conditions throughout but you’ve still go to ask the right questions of the batsmen and we did that once again.”