Played at Lord's, London, on 20,21,22,23,24 June 1996 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn

Toss India, who chose to field first
Series England led the 3-match series 1-0

Test debuts R Dravid and SC Ganguly (India)
Player of the match RC Russell (England)

Umpires HD Bird and DB Hair (Australia)
TV umpire AGT Whitehead
Match referee CW Smith (West Indies)

Close of play
20 Jun day 1 - England 1st innings 238/5 (GP Thorpe 85*, RC Russell 69*)
21 Jun day 2 - India 1st innings 83/2 (SC Ganguly 26*, SR Tendulkar 16*)
22 Jun day 3 - India 1st innings 324/6 (R Dravid 56*, A Kumble 6*)
23 Jun day 4 - England 2nd innings 113/2 (AJ Stewart 65*, PJ Martin 1*)
24 Jun day 5 - England 2nd innings 278/9d (121 ov) - end of match

• Last test match for Umpire HD Bird

• Day 1
• Start of the match was delayed by 30 minutes.
• Ganguly takes a wicket off the 7th ball he bowled.
• Bad light ended the play when 10 more overs needed to be bowled.

• Day 2
• Russell scores his second century (after a gap of 7 years)
• Prasad picks up his maiden 5-wicket innings haul
• Tea taken immediately after the end of England innings
• 39 overs minimum to be bowled in the Indian innings

• Day 3
• Tendulkar was dropped by Hick at second slip off the bowling of Lewis on the last ball of the very first over by Lewis in the morning.
• New ball taken on the 2nd ball of 84th over, bowled by Cork.
• Ganguly scores a century on debut 10th Indian player to score a century in his debut test, 7th Indian player to score a century in his debut innings 61st player (all countries) to score a century in debut test.
• Bad light stops the play when 4.5 overs were yet to be bowled.

• Day 4
• Third new ball taken at the beginning of 165th over, by Lewis.
• Dravid gets out on 90s in his debut innings, 25th player to do so.

• Day 5
• England declared at 5:20, and the match was declared a draw.