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England seamer James Anderson (3rd from L) celebrates with wicketkeeper Matt Prior after removing Rahul Dravid (not in picture) on the last day of the Lord's Test in London on Monday.

James Anderson took five wickets as England thrashed India by 196 runs to win the first Test at Lord's here on Monday.

Victory gave England a 1-0 lead in a four-match series which if they win it by two Tests will see them replace India at the top of the ICC's Test Cham-pionship table.

India, needing what would have been a Test record fourth innings victory total of 458, were bowled out for 261.Anderson took five for 65 in 28 overs during an innings where Suresh Raina top-scored with 78.Kevin Pietersen was named man-of-the-match for his 202 not out in England's first innings 474 for eight declared.

Before tea India had seen Sachin Tendulkar's latest bid to score his 100th international hundred, and first in a Lord's Test, end in failure when he was lbw to Anderson for 12.They started the final session on 218 for five, with Raina 54 not out and India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni 16 not out.

Importantly England had a new ball that was only an over old and fast bowler Chris Tremlett used it well to dismiss Dhoni for his interval score as he edged a rising delivery to wicketkeeper Matt Prior.New batsman Harbhajan Singh went for his shots, taking boundaries off Tremlett and Stuart Broad.

Raina, on 63, with India 243 for six, survived a huge lbw appeal from Broad which replays indicated was right in front.It did not prove decisive, however, with left-hander Raina ninth man out when he was caught behind off Anderson to end more than two hours' resistance featuring 10 fours.Broad finished the match with more than 28 overs to spare when he had last man Ishant Sharma lbw for one.

Tendulkar, in front of a capacity crowd in what was the 2,000th Test of all-time and the 100th between the two countries, rarely looked comfortable from then on and he might have been lbw for 11 to Broad.

Tendulkar spent 38 balls on 11 in all but it still seemed as if it might be his day when, on 12, he was dropped by England captain Andrew Strauss at first slip off Anderson.But two balls later Anderson nipped one back to strike Tendulkar in front of his stumps and this time New Zealand's Bowden raised his finger to end a becalmed 85-minute innings that featured just one boundary.

India were 165 for five with the 38-year-old Tendulkar, who has now made 195 runs in nine Test innings at Lord's at an average of 21.66 with a best of 37 four years ago, contemplating the possibility his glittering career will not include a Test century at the 'home of cricket'.

India had started the day on 80 for one, with Rahul Dravid 34 not out and Venkatsai Laxman 32 not out after Prior's unbeaten 103 on Sunday had rescued England from the depths of 62 for five.The series continues with the second Test at Trent Bridge starting Friday.

SCORES IN BRIEF
ENGLAND: First innings 474-8 declared (Pietersen 202 not out, Prior 71, Trott 70; Praveen 5-106)

INDIA: First innings 286 (Dravid 103 not out; Broad 4-37, Tremlett 3-80)

ENGLAND: Second innings 269-6 declared (Prior 103 not out, Broad 74 not out; Sharma 4-59)

INDIA: Second innings 261 (Raina 78, Laxman 56; Anderson 5-65, Broad 3-57)

Result: England won by 196 runs.

Man-of-the-match: Kevin Pietersen.