By Admin 
In the Manchester Test, England have scored 669 runs in the first innings. Team India’s first innings was reduced to 358 runs, due to which England got a huge lead of 311 runs. Ben Stokes and Joe Root composed history by scoring centuries for the English team. Root scored 150 runs and Stokes scored 141 runs. At the same time, the most successful bowler for India was Ravindra Jadeja, who took a total of 4 wickets.
The first innings of the Indian team was reduced to 358 runs. Sai Sudarshan, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant played a half -century innings for India. When England team came to batting, Ben Docket and Jack Croi broke down on Indian bowlers. Docket scored 94 runs and Croley scored 84 runs. Oli Pope also contributed 71 runs, but the Indian bowlers succeeded in preventing all three top order batsmen from scoring centuries.
Broken 61 year old record
England have made the biggest Test score in one innings at the Manchester ground. Till now, Australia had a record for scoring the biggest score on Manchester, which scored 656 runs in a single innings against England in 1964, but now England have scored 669 runs and have made this record in their name.
Historical centuries of root and stokes
Joe Root scored 150 runs in this match, due to which he has come second in terms of scoring the most runs in the history of Test cricket. Now only Sachin Tendulkar is ahead of him, who scored 15,921 runs in the Test. At the same time, Root has scored 13,409 runs. In this match, he made a record of scoring the most Test century against India.
On the other hand, Stokes has become only the 5th player in the world to take 5 wickets in one Test and score a century. He is the first Test captain of England to do so. Along with this, he has also done the feat of scoring 7000 runs in Tests and taking 200 wickets.
The Indian team has never won a Test match in Manchester. In such a situation, England’s 311 -run lead, Team India is giving the possibility of defeat of an innings. It will be very difficult to cross this 311 -run lead because batting on the pitch has become very difficult on the fourth day.