Ben Stokes' free-flowing Bazballers tore up the record books in astonishing style to thrash the most runs ever scored on the first day of a Test match.
An incredible 506-4 was scored by the time Harry Brook and Stokes walked off the ground with FOUR batters each scoring centuries for the three lions on the same day for the first time. When Stokes uppercut the final ball of the day for four, it brought an end to a frankly mind-boggling performance that included 73 boundaries and three sixes from English blades.
And while Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, and Ollie Pope all deserve fulsome praise for their efforts in bringing up three figures, the star of the show was undoubtedly Brook, who came within a whisker of making his maiden Test hundred the fastest ever by an Englishman.
