Joe Root hits new milestones as century cements England dominance against India

Fourth Test, day three: India 358; England 544-7Root races up to second in all-time Test runs listIt was Joe Root day in Manchester on Friday, where 20,000 people sat and admired a true master at work. Inevitable is a dangerous word in cricket, such is the fickle nature of the sport, and yet all that transpired felt as close to this as is possible: the likeliest of outcomes once Root gamboled out in the morning under an azure blue sky.The first expectation was that England, though still trailing India by 133 runs, would take full control of this fourth Test match and, sitting 2-1 up, the series as a whole. Ben Stokes, Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley had inflicted such damage 24 hours earlier that it was going to take something remarkable from the tourists to turn things around. Continue reading...

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