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,

Joe Root brings up his half-century to help England recover from 44-2 to 153-2 at tea on day one of the third Test against India at Lord's.