After a misfield from Kevin Pietersen on the boundary allowed four, 48 were required from the final 30 balls, and though Broad dislodged a single bail with a yorker to oust Mahendra Dhoni, Uthappa had the final word.
Cook soon went on to his best score in Tests with a lovely cut off Watson, before a single to short fine-leg, facilitated by a misfield from the luckless Mitchell Johnson, gave him his maiden first-class double century.