Masterful Joe Root hauls England back into contention with India

Second Test, day 3: India 364, England 390 Captain’s unbeaten century gives hosts slim leadFor the second successive Saturday and the fifth time this year Joe Root delivered a precious century for England, batting through three intoxicating sessions of Test cricket that both underlined his golden form and, more broadly, why the longest format continues to capture the imagination.As he walked off back to the pavilion at the close, his whites scarcely betraying the toil of his 529 minutes at