England collapse after Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow had threatened to put hosts in full control

Joe Root immediately feared his ‘mic drop’ celebration after scoring the century that defeated India in the last one-day international might come back to haunt him but he could not have dreamt it would be as quickly as this.

Virat Kohli certainly did not miss the opportunity to take his revenge for what India considered an arrogant act by the England captain after the pivotal moment of the first day of this opening Test and quite possibly the series.

The India captain, never one to forget a perceived slight, seized his moment when he ran Root out with a brilliant direct hit from mid-wicket as the England captain struggled to complete a second run that was never there.

England captain Joe Root produced a strong display on day one of the first Test on Wednesday

Jonny Bairstow formed an excellent partnership with Root as England recorded a strong total

Root became the quickest England batsman to reach 6,000 runs on a day where he shined

Root’s wicket was finally taken when he was sensationally run out late in the afternoon

India bowler Ravi Ashwin celebrates after watching Virat Kohli’s throw hit the stumps

India captain Kohli was in a keen mood to celebrate after his throw connected with the stumps

Kohli mimicked Root’s ‘mic drop’ celebration after running out the England captain

Kohli puts his finger to his lips after dismissing England’s star man with a fine piece of fielding

Kohli, so often confrontational on the field, blew a kiss each in the direction of Root and the culpable Jonny Bairstow before shushing the captain, delivering a ‘mic drop’ of his own and then apparently saying ‘Mic drop, f*** off.’

Whether that interests match referee Jeff Crowe remains to be seen but England will be far more upset about an act of complete self-destruction that already looks likely to cost them dear in a series they cannot afford to lose.

What a waste this was of a superlative first day position against the best Test team in the world and what a way for Root to again miss the opportunity to go on to the big three figure score that his ability demands.

This time no blame can be attached to Root, who looked in fantastic touch as he moved to 80 while adding 104 with his fellow Yorkshireman Bairstow on Yorkshire Day to rescue England from a wobble that left them 112 for three.

It was then that Bairstow, the quickest runner in the England side, sprinted back for a second after he had clipped Ravichandran Ashwin through the leg-side in what was becoming a dominant stand.

To be fair to Bairstow, Root made no attempt to send his partner back but he was at least three metres behind and was always destined to be beaten by a half decent throw, let alone the accurate bullet propelled by Kohli.

At least both batsmen missed Kohli’s flammable gesture as Bairstow sank to his haunches and hung his head in despair while Root looked back at his errant partner, chuntering and shaking his head as he went.

Root makes his way back to the pavilion after falling short of reaching his 14th Test century

Ben Stokes added a few more runs for England before he was caught and bowled by Ashwin

What England really needed then was Bairstow to go on and make amends with a big century of his own in the manner of Geoff Boycott after running out local hero Derek Randall at Trent Bridge in 1977. Not a bit of it.

Instead Bairstow, who had been in fluent touch himself to reach 70, rapidly followed his captain back to the pavilion aiming a loose attempted cut at Umesh Yadav and succeeding only in chopping on to his stumps.

The England sloppiness that has seen them average 288 batting first in their last 10 Tests was back again with knobs on and new vice-captain Jos Buttler and Root’s former deputy Ben Stokes soon meekly followed.

Buttler almost walked for what was a plumb lbw to Ashwin and Stokes could not believe what he had done when he lobbed the off-spinner gently back to give Ashwin the third of his eventual four wickets.

From the riches of 216 for three and the very real possibility of a commanding score England had plummeted to 243 and seven and India had been gifted a position of superiority they are unlikely to relinquish.

Former England captain Alastair Cook walks back to the pavilion after he was dismissed

Sam Curran and the contentiously recalled Adil Rashid did their best to hang around but both Rashid, to a reviewed lbw, and Stuart Broad, completely bamboozled by Ashwin, fell to leave England on a way below par 285 for nine at the close. It is not nearly enough.

The joke is now very much on Root, who had become the quickest Englishman to reach 6,000 Test runs, and an England Test side who are trying to inject a slice of the formula that has made their white-ball team such an irresistible force but instead repeated the same old costly mistakes here.

India may be ranked the best Test team in the world but their lofty ranking has been built almost solely on home form and Kohli has made it his mission for India to cement their status by winning here and in Australia.

This, on a curiously low-key start to such a big series with more than 5,000 empty seats at England’s Edgbaston fortress, was a terrific start to that quest, with conditions likely to be at their best for batting today and tomorrow.

India sprung a surprise by picking only one spinner in Ashwin and favouring an additional seamer in Mohammed Shami and it looked a mistake when the off-spinner spun a beauty past the defences of Alastair Cook.

But Shami more than justified his selection when he nipped out Keaton Jennings, unlucky to be bowled off his legs, and Dawid Malan, static when adjudged marginally lbw, in a potent two over spell.

Jennings had looked good for his 42 and will come again but the pressure is building now on Malan, who was perhaps surprisingly preferred in this match to an additional spinning all-rounder in Moeen Ali. The Middlesex man may well need second innings runs to avoid being dropped for Lord’s.

Root and Bairstow had gone a long way to repairing the damage until, at a time when Yorkshire are at war over the selection of Rashid, there was another costly breakdown in communication between two men of the white rose.

Root had called his Headingley ‘mic drop’, the preferred method of celebrating a moment of total superiority of rappers and comedians, ‘the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever done.’

But the captain will be far more embarrassed at England’s latest collapse, particularly if Kohli today makes the big century that his English counterpart looked destined to reach. And England could pay a very high cost for that profligacy.

The first Test between England and India is being played at Edgbaston in Birmingham

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