India were certainly cautious after lunch, as Virender Sehwag bowled on a leg-side line at Hayden with up to four men on the boundary ropes on that side of the wicket.
Having already added 44 overnight, they had stretched that to 127 in 31 overs when Robin Martin-Jenkins trapped Berg leg before playing across the line to claim his sixth wicket of the match and 22nd of the season - only one fewer than he managed throughout 2009.
But, the very next ball, England's talismanic all-rounder was also heading back to the pavilion, the victim of a poor decision by Tiffin when trapped by a Zaheer delivery that pitched outside the line of leg-stump.