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 achieved the landmark during the third Test of the Anderson–Tendulkar Trophy, glancing a boundary off Nitish Kumar Reddy in the 44th over to bring up the 45 runs he needed to cross the 3,000-run mark against India.