Former England captain Joe Root became only the fourth batter after Sachin Tendulkar, Mahela Jayawardene, and Jacques Kallis to complete 8000 Test runs while batting at No.4.

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,

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.