IND vs ENG: Joe Root overtakes Rahul Dravid and Steve Smith in elite list following century against India in Lord's Test

England star batter Joe Root continued breaking records with his 37th century in Test cricket which came in the ongoing Lord's Test against India. The 34-year-old became a nightmare for Shubman Gill & Co. once again and smashed his 11th Test ton against the Men in Blue, making him the player with the joint-most hundreds against the Indian team alongside Australia's Steve Smith.

Root brought up his century on the first delivery of the second day of Lord's Test. He ended up edging Jasprit Bumrah's ball straight down the slip cordon, however with no fielder being present in that area of the field, the ball raced towards the boundary rope. With this, the batter moved to triple figures after facing a total of 192 deliveries.

Root moved closer to Tendulkar's record with the century

The hundred saw Root also continue his pursuit of breaking Sachin Tendulkar's record for the most runs scored in the history of red-ball cricket. The England batter now stands at 13,219 runs and is still over 2,700 runs behind Tendulkar's tally of 15,921 runs in the format.

His last three individual scores at Lord's now read 143, 103 and 104, making him just the third player in history to score tons in three consecutive Tests at the iconic venue in London alongside Jack Hobbs and Michael Vaughan.

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Root also left behind both Rahul Dravid and Steve Smith with the century and became the batter with the fifth-most tons in red-ball cricket. While Tendulkar leads the list with 51 hundreds in Tests, Root is fifth with 37 tons under his belt in the format.

Meanwhile, India started the second day on a highly positive note thanks to an incredible bowling display from Bumrah. The speedster first picked the wicket of Ben Stokes for 44 runs, breaking his 88-run stand with Root. Then he would bring an end to Root's inning in his very next over by ratting the England batter's middle-stump. This wasn't all as on the very next delivery, he would send Chris Woakes back to the dugout for a golden duck.

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These three wickets saw Bumrah's total for the inning reach four while England got restricted to 271/7. Though many expected the visitors to bundle out the hosts before they could touch the 300-run mark, the duo of Jamie Smith and Brydon Carse fought back and formed a highly-important partnership of 82 runs. England didn't lose any more wickets in the remainder of the session and went into the break on 353/7 with Smith unbeaten on 51 and Carse batting on 33.