By Jonathan Agnew BBC cricket correspondent

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While England will thoroughly deserve their victory, whenever it comes on the final day, India's passionate followers will be mortified at the way their team has subsided a second time at Lord's.

Boasting the most powerful batting line up in the world, they have crumbled twice on a pitch on which England have scored nearly 800 runs.

Frustrated by England's clever "throttling" tactics, which restrict India's free-scoring players, the batsmen have only themselves to blame for their demise.

Tendulkar has no answer to England's tactics

Once again, Sachin Tendulkar disappointed. He appeared at the crease when India appeared to be making a better fist of their second innings.

They were 110 for 2 after Virender Sehwag and Wasim Jaffer had both seen off the new ball and were forcing England's bowlers to work hard in the stifling 30 degrees heat.

Simon Jones had found a gap between Sehwag's bat and pad, while Jaffer was brilliantly caught by Nasser Hussain at slip to give Michael Vaughan his first test wicket - not bad for a man who had completed his second Lord's century of the season earlier in the day.

So the "Little Master", as he is known on the subcontinent, walked in knowing that he had nearly a day and a half in which to bat.

Rahul Dravid was well set, but Dravid is not viewed by England as being nearly the threat that Tendulkar poses.

Immediately, men were posted on the boundary in Tendulkar's favoured areas.

Dravid is not seen as the biggest threat

A deep point was despatched, and also a deep square leg so, even if Tendulkar pierced the field, he would score only one, rather than four.

This was the tactic that drove him to frustration in the first innings, and it worked again when, having scored only 12 runs in 51 minutes, he aimed an ambitious drive at Hoggard and was bowled off his pad.

With him went India's already slim hopes of saving the game, and when Ganguly was adjudged lbw to Hoggard's next ball - which might have pitched narrowly outside leg stump - England knew the match was theirs for the taking.

Victory will have been gained through hard work, planning and a rather naive approach by the Indians to England's defensive ploy which India have, by their recklessness, turned into successful, and therefore, positive tactics.

It does not make for attractive cricket, but India must address how they are going to rein in their natural, aggressive tendencies before the second test at Trent Bridge.