Joe Root and Ollie Pope batted with great caution against a disciplined India attack to lift England to 153-2 at tea on the first day of the third test at Lord's on Thursday.

After losing openers Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley cheaply in the morning, Root and Pope adopted a risk-free approach, a far cry from the aggressive Bazball style of cricket England have adopted in recent years. It proved effective, however, as India failed to take another wicket despite the return to their side of Jasprit Bumrah, the world's top-ranked test bowler.

Root reached his 67th test half century to go with 36 hundreds for England's leading all-time runscorer, the milestone coming off 102 balls and including seven fours. He was 54 not out at the interval with Pope on 44 and India suffered a further blow when their free-scoring wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant was forced off the field with a finger injury. Earlier, England captain Ben Stokes won the toss under sunny skies and would have expected his top order to take advantage of favourable batting conditions.

India won the second test by 336 runs to level the series without Bumrah and he bowled a probing opening spell as the touring side rode the momentum of their excellent performance at Edgbaston. Crawley drove Akash Deep sweetly to the cover boundary before greeting Mohammed Siraj to the attack with another crisp hit through the off side but neither he nor Duckett looked comfortable at the crease. Immediately after the drinks interval, Nitish Kumar Reddy struck in his first over when Duckett fell for 23, playing a loose stroke to a ball down the leg side and feathering a catch to wicketkeeper Pant.

Pope was dropped off his first ball, a very hard chance to Shubman Gill at gully, before Reddy squared Crawley up with a fine delivery that moved away and he edged it to Pant to depart for 18. A packed crowd at the home of cricket was stunned into near silence as India celebrated wildly and Reddy continued to extract movement off the pitch and England laboured to 83-2 at lunch.

Life has come full circle with Lord's portrait: Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar said "life has truly come full circle" after a portrait of the India cricket great was unveiled at Lord's on Thursday.

Tendulkar is one of the greatest batsmen cricket has known, scoring 34,357 runs in Test matches, one-day internationals and one T20 for India in an international career that spanned 24 years from 1989 to 2013.

That total is over 6,000 more runs than the next highest of 28,016 compiled by Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara.

"I remember standing near the pavilion, soaking in the history and dreaming quietly," Tendulkar said of his first visit to Lord's in 1988 as a teenager in a post on X.

"Today, to have my portrait unveiled at this very place is a feeling that's hard to put into words. Life has truly come full circle. I'm grateful, and filled with wonderful memories."

The portrait, by Stuart Pearson Wright, is painted from a photograph taken by the artist in Tendulkar's home in Mumbai 18 years ago and was unveiled before the first day of the third Test between England and India.

It is the fifth portrait of an Indian player in the collections of Marylebone Cricket Club, the owners of Lord's.