LONDON: Things at Lord's, the spiritual home of cricket, are not so perfect after all.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India's savior in the first Test, has said "a problem with the sightscreen" led to his dismissal in the first innings and he was lucky enough to stay unbeaten in the second and see India through.

"There was a problem with the sightscreen at the pavilion end. I could not see the ball on three occasions, and on all those occasions, I played the same shot," Dhoni said. "In the first innings I got out, but in the second innings it went for four," the wicketkeeper-batsman said after the match. He said the problem was due to a combination of sightscreen's size and the background color.

"The sightscreen is small but the background is also maroon in color therefore the ball mixes up with the color," he said. "There is also the clothing of the spectators. During the first innings, it was also bright (because of the sun)."

Dhoni hit 76 not out which, in Captain Rahul Dravid's words, "got India out of jail" against England on Monday.