India can go on the hunt once more with the second new ball when play begins tomorrow. They were superb in using these brief windows with the new ball at Edgbaston, and will hope to do that once more over here. While Root is looking solid as ever, Stokes seems to be battling a groin issue.
--251/4 is the fewest aggregate by England on the first day's play in Bazball era where they were not bowled out. Their scoring rate of 3.02 is the second lowest for them in a day's play in this period where they batted at least 50 overs, behind 2.69 (145 in 53.5 overs) on day 3 in Ranchi in 2024. --Joe Root - 18th batter overall and sixth for England to remain unbeaten on 99 overnight. Each of the 17 previous batters reached three figures the following day. --England’s batting today (by shot type percentages) Attacking: 29.4% Rotating: 30.6% Defending: 27.8% No shot: 12.2% --Between June 2022 & this Test Attacking: 44.7% Rotating: 16.6% Defending: 30.9% No shot: 7.8% The attacking shot% for 11 other teams combined in the same timeframe: 32%. --Just 2.5 overs with the second new ball so far, but this one has swung more on average (1.8 times) than the first one did during the first five overs of the day’s play.
18:33 Local Time, 17:33 GMT, 23:03 IST: Stumps on Day 1 on a hot London day where England have crawled at three runs an over
82.6
Akash Deep to Stokes, no run
82.5
Akash Deep to Stokes, no run
"Aaj raat ko banne mat de (don't allow him to get the 100 tonight)" heard over the stump mic - informs Kaushik.
82.4
Akash Deep to Root, 1 run, proper byplay there between Jadeja and Root! He's goading him to come back for the second as he fields the ball at deep backward point. He even drops the ball on the floor
82.3
Akash Deep to Root, no run, good length ball outside off, Root hangs back and stabs it to gully
"Aaj raat ko banne mat de (don't allow him to get the 100 tonight)" heard over the stump mic - informs Kaushik.
82.2
Akash Deep to Root, 2 runs, full and wide outside off, Root reaches out and creams it through point. The crowd wants it to go to the boundary for his hundred but the fielder manages to cut it off
Mustafa Moudi: Its really tough to find Test Innings when Joe Root Fails as a Batsman. This is his 103rd Score of 50 or more, easily the Most among the Active Players. The 2nd is 79 by Smith and 3rd is 50 by Chandimal. Shows how Root is dominating without any competition in this Era!!
82.1
Akash Deep to Root, no run, what happened there? Good length ball on middle,
Probably the final over before stumps. Root on 96.
81.6
Bumrah to Stokes, no run, full delivery swinging down leg, Stokes hit on the pad again as he looks to flick it away
81.5
Bumrah to Stokes, no run, another one that comes in sharply from round the wicket,
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