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 has led England’s effort to vindicate captain Ben Stokes’ decision to bat first against India by scoring an unbeaten 99 in the team’s 251-4 on day one of the Lord’s test