No panic from Ben Duckett. He responds to that early scare by dispatching Mohammed Siraj's third ball through mid-off for four.

30 minutes to go.

Mohammed Siraj enters the attack and nearly strikes first ball. Ben Duckett narrowly avoids chopping onto his stumps.

Box office, yes. But personally I could do without the big swings and misses from Zak Crawley. There's surely a limit to how many sharp intakes of breath a person can take before you explode.

Back-to-back maidens for India. They've bowled two in seven overs in England's second innings. That's as many as they managed in total in the first innings.

Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special commentator

With India it is about being patient. On this surface there are wickets out there.

Sir Alastair Cook
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

It is a big target, but if these two are still here tonight then India will not sleep easily at all.

Prasidh Krishna beats Ben Duckett's outside edge. India captain Shubman Gill applauds, encouraging his side on.

It's a maiden from Krishna. Duckett, on 13 off 24, requests a new bat. The old one didn't have any runs left in it.

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Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ravindra Jadeja and Rishabh Pant will all finish the series with more than 400 runs.

It is only the third time a touring team will finish a series with five or more players reaching that mark, after Australia in the 1989 and 1993 Ashes.

After the drama of Akash Deep's previous over, this one is relatively low-key.

Three runs knocked off that 374 target.

Kumar Dharmasena and Zak Crawley are spotted having a friendly chat at the non-striker's end.

Ben Duckett plays an ugly shot and is fortunate to clear the fielder at mid-off. Crawley adds another boundary to his tally.

England are trucking along.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on Test Match Special

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Zak Crawley is a tall man and that popped on him.

Sometimes you get that sort of ball where you're tentative getting forward.

Zak Crawley may stay a bit more rooted in his crease.

Zak Crawley has a waft at one which swings away but doesn't connect. Shubman Gill looks anguished.

Next ball, he pummels Akash Deep through point and Mohammed Siraj, running around the rope and stretching out a foot, can't save the four.

Crawley wears a painful one on his bicep. Then there's a no-ball. And then a fuller delivery from Deep flies off the pitch and is caught above head height by Dhruv Jurel.

A little bit of everything.

We're into the final hour of day three.

England, leading the series 2-1, need 364 runs to win at the Oval.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on Test Match Special

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That was a gift. It got on the hip and one Ben Duckett didn't have to do too much on.

A gift from Prasidh Krishna and Ben Duckett collects the first boundary of England's chase, flicking the ball into the leg side off his hips.

And it's followed by four more. England are into double figures.

Though this would be a record chase at The Oval, big runs have been made in recent fourth innings on this ground. These are the past seven fourth-innings total here with those in bold being the victories. None have been as large as England's target here, however.

• 219-2 Sri Lanka v England 2024
• 334 Australia v England 2023
• 234 India v Australia 2023
• 130-1 England v South Africa 2022
• 210 England v India 2021
• 263 Australia v England 2019
• 345 India v England 2018
• 252 South Africa v England 2017

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on Test Match Special

Was there bat on that? It was definitely in the business end. That ball moved.

Ooooooh India are very interested in an lbw shout against Ben Duckett who is struck high on his pad. Too high, I think?

They opt against the review but expect plenty of enthusiastic appealing over the next hour or so.

Zak Crawley gets England off the mark with a single. It's struck so crisply through cover that you expect it to run away to the rope but there's a fielder lurking in the deep.