India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal's excellent hundred in the fifth and deciding test at The Oval on Saturday left England needing to break a record that has stood for over a hundred years in their quest for a 3-1 series win.
India, were 304-6 in their second innings an overall lead of 281 runs at tea on the third day in south London.
No side have made more to win in the fourth innings of a test at The Oval than England's 263 in a celebrated one-wicket victory over arch-rivals Australia way back in 1902.
Jaiswal was out shortly before tea for 118, his second hundred of the series after the 23-year-old left-hander's 101 in the first test at Headingley.