Published: August 14, 2021
- Second Test, day 3: India 364, England 390
- Captain’s unbeaten century gives hosts slim lead
For the second successive Saturday and the fifth time this year Joe Root delivered a precious century for England, batting through three intoxicating sessions of Test cricket that both underlined his golden form and, more broadly, why the longest format continues to capture the imagination.
As he walked off back to the pavilion at the close, his whites scarcely betraying the toil of his 529 minutes at the crease, Root was unbeaten on 180 from 321 balls. The England captain had just seen the final wicket fall at the other end, Jimmy Anderson bowled by Mohammed Shami, but England had stuck 390 on the board in response to India’s first innings 364 and a slender lead of 27 had been secured.
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