By the end of the first day’s play in the Lord’s Test, England have scored 251 runs losing 4 wickets in the first innings. There was a strong bowling from Team India. By the end of the first day, there has been a 79 -run partnership between Joe Root and Ben Stokes. Root is moving towards the 37th century of his Test career. On the first day, Nitish Kumar Reddy took the most wickets for India, who took 2 wickets.

In the Lord’s Test, England won the toss and selected the first batting. The English team started in a very strict style as Ben Docket and Jack Croly were pushing the scoreboard by doing good batting. Then Nitish Kumar Reddy came to bowl in the 14th over, in this over, he took the wicket of Ben Docket and Jack Croly. Docket scored 23 runs and Croley scored 18 runs.

After this, Oli Pope and Joe Root together shared a 109 -run partnership, but soon after the lunch break, Ravindra Jadeja scored Oli Pope on a score of 44. Harry Brook also could not stay at the crease for long, which Jaspreet Bumrah made a clean bold at a score of 11.

One run away from the root century

England lost the fourth wicket at the score of 172. After that Joe Root and Ben Stokes are sacrificing the badgeball style and batting in a very slow way. By the end of the first day’s play, Joe Root has scored 99 runs in 191 balls. If the route is able to score a run on the second day, then it will be his 11th century against India in Test cricket. He has already recorded the record for the highest Test run and Test century against India. Ben Stokes has scored just 39 runs in 102 balls in a very slow style. Both have been partnership of 79 runs.

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