England started their first innings against India on the first day of the third Test at Lord's on Thursday and scored 251 runs for four wickets. Joe Root scored 99 runs for England, who have reached a strong position after a bad start.

He managed the English innings while approaching the century. Another not out batsman Ben Stokes scored 39 runs. They have already shared 79 runs. Before that, Oli Pope scored 44 runs.

Among the opener batters, Jack Crawley contributed 18 runs and Ben Duckett contributed 23 runs. Among the Indian bowlers, after Nitesh Kumar Reddy took two wickets in one over, England was at a position of 44 runs after losing two wickets.