11-08-2018 20:34 via theguardian.com

Chris Woakes’s first Test hundred puts England in full control against India

• India 107; England 357-6
• Woakes shines in partnership with Bairstow at Lord’sThe most timely of interventions from Chris Woakes kept England in charge of the second Test. The Warwickshire all-rounder purred to his maiden Test century in just 129 balls, which was rapturously received on the England balcony and everywhere else in the ground. Alongside Jonny Bairstow, Woakes demonstrated that it was possible for batsmen to prevail at Lord’s, after all; their partnership of
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