AHMEDABAD, Nov 17: Spinner Pragyan Ojha snapped up five wickets to give India a mammoth 330-run lead before England staged a spiri-ted fightback in the second innings to give themselves a slight hope of saving the first cricket Test here on Saturday.

England were bundled out for 191 in the first innings with slow left-armer Ojha taking five for 45 in 22.2 overs in his 17th Test, while off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took three wickets, prompting India to enforce the follow-on at the Sardar Patel Stadium.

But the script changed remarkably in the second innings as skipper Alastair Cook (74) and debutant Nick Compton (34) steered England to 111-0 at close on an eventful third day with the visitors still trailing by 219 runs.

With two full days left in the match, India still hold the advantage of going 1-0 up in the four-match series.

The visitors showed better application in the second innings, after India, who scored a massive 521 for eight declared, asked them to follow-on.

Starting the second innings after an early tea, Cook and Compton, who was out for nine in the first innings, put on an unbeaten century stand to give England a fine start in their quest for avoiding an innings defeat.

England, who started the day at 41 for three, were pushed to the brink before they adjourned for the lunch break at 110-7.

They fought back for a brief while through Matt Prior (48) and Tim Bresnan (19).

Wicket-keeper Prior was the last man out when he lost his off stump to Ojha.

Prior’s was the top score of the innings with only Cook, who scored 41, being the only other batsman to cross 40 in a pathetic display.

Prior, who had come to the wicket at the fall of Ian Bell with the total reading 69-5, played with positive intent.

Bresnan faced 112 balls and hit a couple of boundaries, and showed better application than most of the front-line batsmen.

India shuffled their bowlers constantly and Ojha got the breakthrough by dismissing Bresnan and then followed it up with the wicket of Prior after Zaheer got his only wicket of the innings, trapping Stuart Broad leg before.

In the morning, Ojha picked up two wickets off successive balls while Ashwin and medium-pacer Umesh Yadav shared the other two at the end of first session.

Ojha packed off a nervous-looking Kevin Pietersen (17) and a clueless Bell (0) at the same score of 69 while Ashwin broke through the defense of Cook 11 runs later.

Yadav struck in his first over late in the second hour of play, having Samit Patel trapped in front.

The visitors had, by lunch, got past their lowest ever total of 102 made in India, in 1981 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

They put on 66 runs in 34 overs while losing four wickets in the first session.—Agencies