India vs England: Root slams 37th Test century as hosts recover after Bumrah's treble strike

The senior England batter scored his 37th Test hundred to go past the tally of former India skipper Rahul Dravid and Australia's Steve Smith.

Joe Root scored his 37th Test hundred as England recovered from Jasprit Bumrah's treble strikes to reach 353 for seven against India at lunch on day two of the third Test match of the Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy at Lord's Cricket Ground.

Resuming at their overnight score of 251 for four, England were reduced to 271 for seven as Bumrah made his presence felt with three quick blows.

England captain Ben Stokes, had added just five runs to his overnight score of 39 when he was bowled playing down the wrong line to a Bumrah delivery that jagged back and smashed into his off stump.

Bumrah struck again when Root was late on a drive and inside-edged onto his middle stump.

Next ball all-rounder Chris Woakes fell for a golden duck as he chased a wide delivery from Bumrah outside off stump and got a thin edge to reserve wicket-keeper Dhruv Jurel.

Smith does rescue act again

However, India's joy was short-lived as Jamie Smith once again scripted England's lower order fightback. The English keeper-batter, who scored 184 not out and 88 in the previous Test, counter-attacked with a fluent fifty and was unbeaten on 51 from 53 balls at the break, with Brydon Carse (33 batting) offering solid support in an unbroken eighth-wicket stand worth 82 runs that came off just 106 balls.

Earlier Root completed his 37th Test hundred to go past the tally of former India skipper Rahul Dravid and Australia's Steve Smith, both of whom have made 36 centuries in the traditional format.

Root achieved the feat when he drove Bumrah for a boundary wide of the third slip. However Bumrah had last laugh getting the former England skipper bowled for 104 off 199 balls with 10 hits to the fence.

Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar leads the list of century makers with 51 hundreds, followed by Jacques Kallis (45), Ricky Ponting (41) and Kumar Sangakkara (38).

Root also joined Australian batter Smith as the batter with most hundreds (11) against India in Test cricket.

The 34-year-old also became the third English batter to score three successive hundreds at the Lord’s along with Michael Vaughan (2004-05) and Sir Jack ‘Master’ Hobbs (1912-1926).

Among international batters, only Dilip Vengsarkar has the distinction of a hat-trick of hundreds (1979, 1982, 1986) at the venue.

The hundred against India was also Root’s eighth at Lord's, highest by any batter in history.

(With inputs from Agencies)