England Crossed 250 On The First Day of Lord's Test

• By Thetripurapost Sports Desk, Lord
• Jul 11, 2025
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The first day of the Lord's Test went in favour of the English team. The team scored 251 runs for 4 wickets by the end of the day's play against India. 

Joe Root returned unbeaten on 99 and Ben Stokes on 39. Both have made an unbeaten partnership of 79 runs on 170 balls for the 5th wicket. Root is one run away from his 37th Test century.

England won the toss and elected to bat at Lord's Stadium in London on Thursday. After losing two wickets at the score of 44 runs, the pair of Ollie Pope and Joe Root took charge of the innings. 

The team did not lose any wicket in the second session of the day. In the last session, Root and Stokes put the English team ahead by making an unbeaten partnership of 79 runs.

Ollie Pope 44, Ben Duckett 23, Jack Crawley 18 and Harry Brook were out after scoring 11 runs. Nitish Kumar Reddy took 2 wickets for India. Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja got one wicket each. 

Facts related to Root's batting:

Root has completed 3 thousand Test runs against India. He achieved this feat as soon as he scored his 45th run in this innings.
Root has completed 7 thousand Test runs in England. He achieved this feat in the last over of the day.

Playing-11 of both the teams:

India: Shubman Gill (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Akash Deep, Jaspreet Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj.

England: Ben Stokes (captain), Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brooke, Jamie Smith (wicketkeeper), Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer and Shoaib Bashir.