5 areas where England batsmen outdid India in the first innings of the Rajkot Test

#4 The middle order contributing with three hundreds

Ben Stokes’s batting talent was there for all to see

The last time a foreign batsman got a hundred in a Test on Indian soil it was 2013 and the cricketer was the then Australian captain Michael Clarke. Three years later, in the very first Test of the series England batsmen found the triple figure mark not very far away.

Joe Root, Moeen Ali and Ben Stokes all completed their sparkling tons displaying their dominance over the much talked about bowling attack. While Ben Stokes got the highest with a 235-ball 128, Joe Root notched 124 runs. Ali contributed with a dazzling 117.