London/IBNS: India captain Shubman Gill feels his deputy Rishabh Pant's dismissal on the stroke of lunch on day three proved to be costly as that had denied the visitors a chance to take a lead over England in the first innings of third Test at Lord's in London.

Pant was run out by England captain Ben Stokes' perfect throw at the non-striker end when the wicketkeeper-batter tried to pick a quick single and handover the charge to KL Rahul, who was knocking at the door of his century.

Rahul finished his hundred after lunch but before going for the meal, India lost a thriving 141-run partnership with Pant walking back to the change room for 74.

Reflecting on the dismissal, Gill said, "Rishabh Pant's run-out was the most crucial moment for us. At one point, we felt we could take a 50-100-run lead in the first innings. We were aware that batting on this wicket on day five wouldn't be that easy so it is always better to have as much lead as possible in the first innings. The opponent team could have been on the backfoot had we taken the lead."

Besides Pant's run-out, the India captain, who scored over 600 already in the series but failed to fire at Lord's, also talked about the top-order's collapse in the second innings eventually handing over England a 22-run win despite Ravindra Jadeja's fight with tailenders.

Gill said, "As the scores were level in the first innings, obviously the better batting side in the second innings were about to win. The team chasing are always under pressure.

"Our top-order batters didn't perform the way we wanted in the last hour of day four and first hour of day five. It happens sometimes. We could have handled the pressure in a better way which we couldn't."

How did India crumble in the run-chase?

England- backed by pace bowling brilliance- bowled out India for 170 to win the third Test by 22 runs.

England captain Ben Stokes (3/48) and Jofra Archer (3/55) anchored the English spells that ransacked the visitors' defence.

The hosts started celebrating when Shoaib Bashir's ball defended by Mohammed Siraj kissed the stumps to wrap up India's fight to chase down 193 on the fifth and final day of the match.

Siraj's unfortunate dismissal left his senior partner, allrounder Ravindra Jadeja in dismay as the southpaw failed to finish the task after a long-drawn battle of unbeaten 61 off 181 balls.

Prior to Siraj's fight, Jadeja was supported for long post lunch by Jasprit Bumrah, who survived 54 balls to score five.

Siraj's dismissal may be unfortunate but England sealed a deserving win as India's entire top and middle-order batting collapsed in the run-chase, which was considered quite an easy task for the visitors, who restricted Stokes' men to 192 in the second innings riding on Washington Sundar's fourfer on day four.

Previously, India equalised England's first innings total of 387.

The hosts have taken a 2-1 lead over India in the five-match series.