Joe Root announces himself on India tour with timely England century in Fourth Test
Joe Root rose above the carnage of a frantic morning session and the strange mediocrity of his own tour so far to rescue England with a masterful hundred on the opening day of the crucial Fourth Test in Ranchi.
Choosing first use of a fiendish surface that England captain had described as unlike any he has seen in his career, the tourists lost five wickets before lunch at the start of a contest that, at 2-1 down in the five-match series, they must win to
