England were left sweating after their talismanic captain Ben Stokes suffered a worrying groin injury while batting late on the opening day at Lord’s.

This was an old-school day that the Little Master would surely have luxuriated in during his playing days, a good – if slightly slow – surface providing enough to encourage batter and bowler and England eschewing some of their extravagant electronica to harmonise with India on a gentler,

Joe Root etched his name in Lord's history, surpassing Graham Gooch as the highest run-scorer with 2526 runs. During the Test against India, he became the first to score 3000 Test runs against them and reached his 103rd fifty-plus score.