India suffered a heartbreaking 22-run defeat to England at Lord's. India were set a 193-run target, a very achievable score, to win the third Test, but they were bowled out for 170 to lose the game. At 41-1, India were cruising towards a win, but a huge collapse saw them get reduced to 112-8. Ravindra Jadeja, who scored 61*, did his best to get the team close, and got decent support from Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj, adding 35 and a 23-run partnership, respectively, but he couldn't get the team over the line.

Meanwhile, former India coach Ravi Shastri highlighted two major turning points in India's Lord's defeat. Shastri listed Rishabh Pant's run out for 74 as a big setback to India. Pant played a magnificent innings of 74 in the first innings, and with India at 248-3, chasing England's first innings score of 387, a big lead for the hosts looked inevitable. But Pant was run out at the stroke of Lunch. KL Rahul followed soon, and the hopes of taking a big lead vanished. India also scored 387 runs in the first innings and threw away a big advantage.

“The turning point for me in this Test match was, first of all, Rishabh Pant's dismissal [in the first innings],” Ravi Shastri told Sanjana Ganesan, speaking on the latest edition of The ICC Review.

“Ben Stokes, simply outstanding presence of mind to hit at the right end and pull it off on the stroke of lunch. Because India would have got a lead and they were in the driver's seat.”

Shastri also blamed India's top order failure as a major reason for the defeat. Citing Karun Nair's wicket, Shastri said the tailenders showed the pitch was not tough to bat, and had the top order been mentally tougher, India could have won the game.

“Having said that, again at 40/1 [in the second innings], I thought that was a huge lapse in concentration from Karun Nair to leave a straight ball, a nothing ball, to leave it and open the door for England. I thought that the timing of that dismissal turned things around,” said Shastri.

“Because you saw when Siraj batted, when Bumrah batted, when Jadeja was batting, once the ball was 40 overs old, they hardly put a foot wrong.

“They were solid in defence and to bring that target down at lunch, 82 to get, you thought in the next 10 minutes it would be done and dusted. But to bring that 82 or 83 to 22 was a massive achievement.

“So it just goes to show that [if] the top order had just been a little tougher and mentally stronger on Day 4, towards the end, this game would have been India's.”