What a fightback by India. From what seemed to be a total domination by Pakistan, it turned and India actually managed a thin lead!

India started off badly with Gambhir getting yorked off a beauty by Sami off the first ball of his over. Nice sight for a fast bowler to see the yorker work.

Sehwag was his usual self until unfortunately he edged the ball on to his body and then went on to the stumps. It was sad because he seemed to be in control on what experts were saying was a wearing pitch.

Then Sachin and Dravid took over. They were in complete control and were going really smoothly, with Sachin really showing signs of his old self. There were some pretty nice shots played and it made my happy to see his form. I think Bangalore may be a great place to get the 35th! :-) Fingers crossed.

Then, the light started fading. The floodlights were turned on, but they take a few minutes to actually get to maximum brightness. So Sachin and Dravid started complaining to the umpires about the lack of visibility. And the umpires (Steve Bucknor especially, he does not like India and Indians, at least on the cricket field) refused to stop play for some time. The game went on and shockingly, Sachin was adjudged out caught behind. Replays showed there there was a huge gap between bat and the ball and Bucknor probably gave him out for excessive complaining or something.

That was the only sad part of the last session. The run rate was decent, the lead is quite healthy at this point and it sets up a great day 4. The only scare was rain. It would be unfortunate if rain plays spoilsport on this match, which is still quite evely poised.