By Jonathan Agnew BBC cricket correspondent at The Oval

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It is clearly going to be a long, hard slog for England if they are to win this match.

Their tactics are already clear: they have decided that they will rely on frustrating India's batsmen rather than setting elaborately attacking fields. Only time will tell if this is the right approach, or not.

Sehwag's wicket was England's sole success so far

Although India are a long way behind, they will not entirely have written off their prospects.

Their plan will be to make an enormous total, something in excess of 650, and hope their spinners will find some assistance on the last day.

Their top order is in terrific form, but unless they can muster a score in that vicinity, I cannot see any way India can win the game.

They will be ruing their performance on the opening day because today they looked like a different team, taking eight England wickets as only 179 runs were added in 65 overs.

It was a terrific effort, but has probably come too late.

They struck early, removing the man they really wanted - Michael Vaughan - in only the fourth over of the day.

Crawley awaits verdict

Vaughan's innings of 195 was an outstanding achievement, but he must be hugely disappointed to have missed out so narrowly on a double century for the second time in three Tests.

Dominic Cork shares a joke with his teammates

John Crawley made only eight more runs this morning, falling lbw for 26, and this will leave him waiting rather anxiously for Tuesday's announcement of the Ashes party.

It was an uncertain innings, coming at a time when he really needed to impose himself, and will give hope to his rivals, Mark Ramprakash in particular.

Crawley's dismissal confirmed that India were fighting back as the ball begun to swing around for Bangar and Zaheer.

After getting off the mark with a cracking cover drive, Hussain got rather bogged down and, trying to loosen the shackles, edged a rather ungainly slash to slip.

Stewart made 23, but the main contribution from the lower order came from Cork who, replacing Flintoff at number seven, made a fighting half century.

His Hussain-like gesture to the dressing room when he reached 50 probably made him feel better, but it is his bowling for England this summer that has lost its spark, not his batting.

He could yet make a late bid to tour Australia, but he must prove that he still has something to offer with outswingers which have been frustratingly elusive in recent years.