Joe Root surpasses Graham Gooch to become the highest run-scorer at Lord's across all formats. He also becomes the first player to score 3000 Test runs against India and is on the verge of surpassing Rahul Dravid's Test century tally.

Joe Root has led England’s effort to vindicate captain Ben Stokes’ decision to bat first against India by scoring an unbeaten 99 in the team’s 251-4 on day one of the Lord’s test

Joe Root continues to break records in style. With his gritty 99* at Lord’s against India, the England legend has now registered 67 Test fifties, moving to second on the all-time list. Here’s the updated leaderboard: 68 – Sachin Tendulkar 67 – Joe Root* 66 – Shivnarine Chanderpaul 63 – Rahul Dravid 63 – Allan Border 62 – Ricky Ponting