That's it, it has finally ended, in a stalemate. This is Abhishek Purohit signing off, along with Liam Brickhill, who is having a silent chuckle somewhere in ESPNcricinfo Towers in London. Thanks for all the frenzied feedback folks. Cheers and stay away the rain.

Suresh Raina: "I was batting well but not getting big scores. My game plan is simple, when I get the ball in my areas, I play my game. Disappointing for Ravi to not have got the 100."

Ravi Bopara: "Not an ideal way to clinch the series, with the rain around, we did not know when to accelerate. Should I knock it for ones and twos, or go for the big shots, once Swann got out I thought we should really go for it towards the close. Last couple of games have been nice for me, long way to go ahead."

Joint Men of the Match today, Suresh Raina and Ravi Bopara.

Alastair Cook: "It was touch and go towards the end, we ended up batting for D/L, being more defensive knocking off the singles, not sure when the rain was coming. Tie was a fair result. Great to see Bopara delivering on the big stage to get us a tie. We tried everything earlier but that partnership (between Dhoni and Raina) was fantastic. If we had kept them to 250, we could have got there comfortably. Possibly we missed Dernbach. We will know on Broad in 48 hours."

MS Dhoni: "I will not crib about the tie. Jadeja is doing his job brilliantly. In conditions like these, it is hard for the part-timers. Today when the ball got wet, we had enough resources. We know Raina has fair amount of firepower and if he gets going can destroy any attack in the world. We have not won anything. It has been a long tour, we have one more game, we will give it our best."

Karthik: "@Prateek: Without the catch by Jadeja on the last ball we would have lost."

Abedi: "No body is giving credit to Munaf for his excellent last 5 balls that convert a Loss for India to a Tie at least."

Prateek: "Oh Jadeja! What was that inexcusable, needless throw at the striker's end for?!"

Julia: "Whoa this has been more dramatic than a Bollywood movie."

6.25 pm With the covers firmly on at Lord's, the game has been called off. It is a tie, the second one in the previous five games between England and India. The home team have taken the series with the final game in Cardiff to go. Bit of a letdown actually, what with all the frenetic momentum shifts towards the end.

Rohit: "Did England just do a South Africa?"

The umpires will wait till 6.30 pm before calling the presently-tied game off.

Nauman: "Pardon me for being too judgmental, but seriously. Did england invent the game of cricket? really? Had they, then it would have been an indoor game."

amit: "You may find the indian team being invited to play in some drought affected areas. They seem to attract rain."

And fittingly, it will be a tie if the game is called off here. Just been too much of ebb and flow in this game for both sides

They are going off again for rain, it had been pouring all over the helmets of the batsmen but the umpires had been gritting their teeth and hanging in there, just got too heavy for comfort now

With the rain coming down, Swann withdraws late from his stance, wasting some time

Shiraz: "I'm not an English fan but I have to admit England seems to have a man for every occasion if it's not Bresnan it's Swann, if it's not Bell it's Bopara one or the other person steps up for every occasion." Ravinder Singh is the man today

sayantan: "at the begining of the match someone had argued in favour of not picking aaron..reasons,can he bowl yorkers,slower etc..bowling fast is not anough...just curious to know how many yorkers and slower ones munaf and RP has bowled so far in this series..."

RP and Munaf are having a discussion. RP from round the stumps

29 off 24. Looks like a steal