Joe Root was unbeaten on 99 as England finished Day 1 of the Lord's Test at 251 for 4, after 83 overs had been bowled.

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,