Moeen Ali at last broke India's patience as England fixed the Specsavers arrangement with a 60-run win in a titanic battle in Southampton.
The world's Number 1 Team pushed England into the penultimate day of the fourth Test, on account of a century fourth-wicket remain between Virat Kohli (58) and Ajinkya Rahane (51).
Moeen (four for 71) took his match tally to nine wickets, and India lost four for 13 not long after tea to give England an unassailable 3-1 lead with one match to play.
India's objective, one they have succeeded only once in their history to win outside Asia, was 245 after England were knocked down some pins out for 271 in their second innings.
Kohli, particularly, and Rahane too made Joe To root sweat. However, Moeen in the long run expelled both, on an inexorably accommodating pitch, in a sum of 184.
A memorable morning dependably showed up in radiantly cloudless conditions. It was demonstrated as first England lost their last two wickets for 11 runs.
Stuart Broad edged the primary ball behind to go for another duck and put Mohammed Shami (four for 57) on a cap trap for the second time in the innings.
Sam Curran kept that toward the beginning of the following over, just to miss the mark regarding his second 50 of the match, run out in spite of a make a plunge for a chancy second.
This fluctuating challenge was subsequently superbly set, however India were before long undermined by early wickets.
KL Rahul was fixed by low bob, rocked the bowling alley on the back-foot safeguard by Broad.
James Anderson had been peculiarly wicketless through the main innings, yet before long stowed two out of four balls.
Cheteshwar Pujara could summon just five, after his unbeaten century on Friday, lbw pushing forward. At that point in his next over, Anderson had Shikhar Dhawan edging some swing to be well-caught by Ben Stokes at third slip.
The lunch wasnt called yet.
Kohli had only nine when he made due in a snapshot of contention after England selected a lbw audit.
Innovation portrayed Moeen's off-break hitting in line and going ahead to leg-stump, yet third umpire Joel Wilson translated a Ultraedge as Kohli's bat-on-ball guardian angel - regardless of an evidently synchronized contact with the front cushion.
Rahane additionally had a minor escape on 12, given out lbw to Curran on the field yet gave a life saver by DRS which exhibited a finger-nail distension of the front cushion outside off-stump.
England could gather just a single wicket towards the evening, yet it was the one they longed for over all others.
The session was an article of cricketing aptitudes as bat countered ball, regardless of the perils of turn, intermittent variable bounce and footmarks for Moeen and Adil Rashid, and swing for Anderson.
Kohli managed the part, achieving his 114-ball 50 with simply his third limit, until the point when Moeen got one in the ideal place to turn, ricochet and take the glove for a catch at short-leg.
Hardik Pandya kept going only three balls, fencing a catch low to second slip off Stokes and, all of a sudden it appeared, everything relied upon Rahane.
Rishabh Pant tried England's nerve quickly with a counter-assaulting appearance of two limits and a hurled six from only 12 balls.
Be that as it may, he holed out to found the cover fielder off Moeen - and once Rahane went to the off-spinner as well, lbw somewhere down in his wrinkle after a 147-ball 50 which contained a lone limit, England were finally on the home straight.
It was not Moeen, on his arrival in the wake of being dropped in Christchurch in March, who struck the last blow, it was the kid Sam Curran, with the fourteenth lbw decision of the match as Ravi Ashwin was last out and finishing India's destruction which he had started with the bat in England's first innings.
