Fired-up England leaves India reeling at 58-4 and Lord's test on a knife-edge

LONDON (AP) — England dismissed four India batters and gave the Lord's test another twist of fate on Sunday to leave it on a knife-edge heading toward the fifth and final day.

India set itself a winning target of 193 runs but was reduced to 58-4 in its second innings. Stumps, with eight overs remaining, came as a relief to India with England fired up and a sun-soaked Lord's crowd turned happily hostile.

For one of the teams to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series, England needs six more wickets and India needs 135 more runs on Monday.

Asked for a prediction, India's Washington Sundar smiled and told broadcaster Sky Sports, “Definitely India winning tomorrow. Just after lunch.” Then, serious, he added, "The position we are in right now, we would have taken. Maybe one down would be ideal.”

Opening batter Lokesh Rahul will resume on 33 not out but with the ball only 17.4 overs old and still juicy.

India began its chase after tea and appeared to weather the early storm after Yashasvi Jaiswal fell to Jofra Archer for a duck and fellow opener Rahul was dropped on 5 by Chris Woakes.

Rahul and Karun Nair piled more hurt on England and were chipping runs off the target until nearly an hour later when Nair left a straight delivery from seamer Brydon Carse and was plumb lbw.

India appeared to panic. In came captain Shubman Gill, the series' most prolific batter. But he was unusually anxious, played six false shots in the nine balls he faced, and was out lbw to Carse for 6.

That huge wicket sent England into orbit and Carse into overdrive.

India sent in fast bowler Akash Deep as a nightwatchman and for the last 15 minutes of the day he was targeted. Deep survived a video review on umpire's call and multiple lbw and catch appeals off Carse. But it was Stokes who smashed his off stump in what turned out to be the last ball of a remarkable day.

The inspired Carse had 2-11 and Stokes 1-15.

In all, 14 wickets fell on Day 4.

“When the ball gets a little bit softer there is more runs to be had out there but if you get it enough in the right place (the pitch is) very tricky,” England batting coach Marcus Trescothick told the BBC. "It'll come down to who holds the pressure best tomorrow."

England was fielding on Day 2 and Day 3 and gave its bowlers only 61 overs of rest on Sunday before it was bowling again on Day 4.

England was batting at 154-4 on Sunday afternoon and looking good to post a challenging target but suffered a collapse of 38-6 to be all out for 192.

For some reason, the pitch turned nasty overnight. It was offering plenty for the new-ball seamers and India's Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj made deliveries fly off a length and rear up almost dangerously. On this minefield, four England batters blew up in the morning.

Ben Duckett swatted straight to mid-on and Siraj followed through by screaming “Come on” twice in Duckett's face and they brushed shoulders. Siraj got Ollie Pope next, lbw for 4 after a review.

Zak Crawley’s brave but skittish innings finished on 22, edging a drive at Nitish Kumar Reddy.

Harry Brook relieved the tension by scooping Deep for two boundaries and smashing him into the members' pavilion. But Brook then tried sweeping the seamer and was bowled around his pads on 23.

Joe Root and Stokes took England to lunch on 98-4 and spent the afternoon edging their team toward a defendable target; 250 in the mind of most observers.

The pitch eased as the ball softened and Root and Stokes took England past 100 and 150.

Then off-spinner Sundar regained the momentum for India when he found drift and spin and bowled Root on 40 (sweeping), Jamie Smith on 8 (defending), Stokes on 33 (sweeping) and Shoaib Bashir on 0 (defending).

Sundar had 4-22 in 12.1 overs, the best figures by an India spinner in England in 23 years.

Bumrah took 2-38 and Siraj 2-31.

“They were all big wickets, especially (at) the stage of play,” Sundar said. “The U.K. has been kind, I don't get as much drift in subcontinent conditions.”

A dozen England batters in the match were bowled, the most by England in a test since 1887 in Sydney. It had never happened in England. Six of the bowleds in the match were by Bumrah. That was a first for India against England. The last bowler to bowl six Englishmen was Curtly Ambrose in 1994 at Port of Spain.

But India's terrific bowling effort showed England what kind of damage it can do, too, and set up the match for a thrilling finale at a sold-out Lords on Monday.

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England's Brydon Carse celebrates the dismissal of India's Karun Nair during the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and India at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)

England's captain Ben Stokes, right, celebrates with teammates after the dismissal of the dismissal of India's Akash Deep during the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and India at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)

England's Brydon Carse, second right, celebrates with teammates after the dismissal of India's captain Shubman Gill, second left, during the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and India at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)

England's captain Ben Stokes lies on ground after a delivery from India's Mohammed Siraj, right, hit him during the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and India at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)

England's Jamie Smith bowled out by India's Washington Sundar during the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and India at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)

England's Joe Root bowled out by India's Washington Sundar during the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and India at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)

India's Washington Sundar celebrates the dismissal of England's Joe Root during the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and India at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)

India's Nitish Kumar Reddy, center, bowls a delivery during the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and India at Lord¥s cricket ground in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)

India's Mohammed Siraj, left, celebrates the dismissal of England's Ben Duckett, right, during the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and India at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)

England's Harry Brook bold out by India's Akash Deep during the fourth day of the third cricket test match between England and India at Lord¥s cricket ground in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)

BERLIN (AP) — A former head of Germany 's foreign intelligence service was arrested Tuesday on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's office said.

August Hanning, who led the Federal Intelligence Service, known by its German acronym BND, from 1998 to 2005, is “strongly suspected of treasonous espionage, spying out state secrets, attempted treason, and espionage,” the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

Hanning, 80, was arrested in Bad Toelz-Wolfratshausen in southern Germany. A former aide, identified as Manfred D., was also arrested Tuesday in Steinfurt in western Germany and has been charged with aiding and abetting attempted treason and treasonous espionage.

“In one instance, there is suspicion that Mr. Hanning used classified information to prepare an analysis for an employee of a foreign intelligence service,” Ines Peterson, a spokesperson for the federal prosecutor’s office, told German broadcaster RTL.

“In another instance, he is alleged to have passed on information following an extensive exchange — also with an employee of another intelligence service.”

Neither Peterson nor the earlier statement by the prosecutor's office revealed who exactly the two men were suspected of spying for or which foreign intelligence services they provided with classified information.

Premises belonging to both men were searched Tuesday.

The prosecutor's office said Manfred D. worked as Hanning's chief of staff and later served as chief of staff for several subsequent BND presidents from 2012 until 2026.

“In his role, he had access to confidential information,” the prosecutor's office said.

Both suspects are believed to have agreed in 2010 to have Manfred D. continuously transmit valuable intelligence from the BND to Hanning in exchange for payment, the statement said.

“The current findings suggest that, over the years, Manfred D. provided Hanning with approximately 2,000 documents, many of which contained classified information to be used exclusively by the federal intelligence service for internal purposes, particularly for executive intelligence briefings,” the statement said.

Hanning used the information in private consulting work and Manfred D., who in line with German privacy rules cannot be identified by his full name, provided Hanning with classified information until June 2022, Peterson said.

Hanning came under scrutiny in a separate investigation into the abduction of Hamburg businesswoman Christina Block’s children from her ex-husband in Denmark in January 2024 in a lengthy custody battle.

The investigation into that case led to Tuesday's arrests.

The current proceedings stem from evidence found during a search of Hanning’s residence in connection with that case, the federal prosecutor’s office stated.

Hanning and a retired official from the Hamburg State Criminal Police Office are suspected of having accepted a contract from Block in 2022 to abduct her children while serving as executives of a security firm, the public prosecutor’s office announced in the fall of 2025, according to German news agency dpa.

The Blocks are a prominent Hamburg family best known for their popular national steakhouse chain Block House. The custody trial has received a lot of attention in the country, with German tabloids offering heavy coverage from the court.

A message to the BND for comment was not immediately returned.

German opposition lawmaker Konstantin von Notz expressed shock about the allegations against Hanning and called for a quick investigation.

“This is a hard-hitting and deeply troubling story,” said von Notz, a member of the Greens party and also the German parliament committee overseeing the intelligence services.

“We expect a swift and thorough investigation into the egregious allegations leveled against former BND chief Hanning,” he told Spiegel Online.

“We have been criticizing the dubious and wide-ranging lobbying activities of former top officials and those with the highest security clearances in Germany for years,” he said and called for banning former officials with security clearances from engaging in private consulting work after leaving office, Spiegel Online reported.

An earlier version of this story was corrected to describe the suspect as the former head of foreign, not domestic, intelligence.

Police officers are standing in front of the home of former president of the Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, August Hanning, 80, who was arrested on suspicion of espionage, in Nordwalde, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)

Police officers are stationed at the entrance to the home of former president of the Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, August Hanning, 80, who was arrested on suspicion of espionage, in Nordwalde, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)

Police officers are stationed at the entrance to the home of former president of the Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, August Hanning, 80, who was arrested on suspicion of espionage, in Nordwalde, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)

August Hanning, the former president of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), arrives at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin on Oct. 2, 2015. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

August Hanning, the former president of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), appears as a witness before the NSA investigative committee at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin on Oct. 1, 2015. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)