London : Joe Root’s 99* (191) dominated India on Day 1 of 3rd Test at Lord’s, London, of Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, despite 2 breakthroughs from Nitish Reddy.
England Batting first, saw openers Ben Duckett (23) and Zak Crawley (18) put up 43 runs opening stand.
However, Nitish Reddy came out of syllabus and dismissed both openers in a single over (14th over) on 44 runs.
Ollie Pope (44) joined Joe Root (99*) for 109 runs partnership before getting dismissed by Ravindra Jadeja right after lunch. Very soon vice captain Harry Brook (11) was too knocked off by Jasprit Bumrah who made comeback in this test replacing Prasidh Krishna.
The day ended with skipper Ben Stokes (39*) forming 79 runs partnership with Root, putting England on 251-4 , after Day 1.
