India's Zaheer Khan celebrates after claiming the wicket of England's Paul Collingwood (unseen) during the fourth day of the second Test cricket match at the Trent Bridge ground, Nottingham, England yesterday. - AP Photo

NOTTINGHAM (Reuters):

Left-arm seamer Zaheer Khan took five for 75 yesterday to put India in sight of victory over England in the second Test at Trent Bridge.

At the close on the fourth day India, chasing 73 to go one-up in the three-Test series, were 10 without loss.

Captain Michael Vaughan scored 124 in England's second innings of 355, while Andrew Strauss struck 55 and Paul Collingwood 63.

Vaughan, who passed 5,000 test runs, completed his 17th Test century, but England collapsed from 287 for three to 355 all out as Zaheer exploited the new ball.

England, who began the day 240 runs behind India's first innings 481, were fighting hard when Vaughan and Collingwood came together in a fourth-wicket stand that was worth 112.

But when the luckless Vaughan, who stroked 18 boundaries, was bowled by Zaheer after the ball struck his thigh pad and rolled on to his stumps, the innings folded.

Jelly beans

Khan said England's attempts to unsettle him by tossing jelly beans on to the wicket proved the spur for his five-wicket haul.

"On the crease, there was a jelly bean while I was batting so I chucked one off the wicket and when I played the next ball there were again some jelly beans there on the wicket.

"So obviously someone was chucking (them) from behind on the wicket which I didn't like so I just went up to them and said, 'Guys what is this all about, I'm here to play cricket.' So they came at me and I was upset about it and I just reacted accordingly.

"I didn't know exactly from where it was coming, maybe I blamed the wrong one, I was just not bothered at that time because I just felt it was insulting. When I removed it, it shouldn't have come there again."