Joe Root's 30th Test hundred lit up England's 'Bazball' in the opening Ashes skirmishes and sidekick Jonny Bairstow warned: “He'll be after 25,000 runs and another 10 years in the game.”
On a thrilling curtain-raiser at Edgbaston, Root's brilliant, unbeaten 118 carried England to 393-8 before skipper Ben Stokes ' funky declaration left Australia's openers to negotiate 20 minutes before the close in the first Test.
And Bairstow, whose bullish, run-a-ball 78 helped Root lead the fightback from a perilous 176-5, said: “Joe's performances have been outstanding for such a long period of time.
