England v Ireland: Ollie Pope, Ben Duckett and Josh Tongue star at Lord's

Ollie Pope crashed his maiden Test treble 100 and Ben Duckett helped himself to 182 connected a wholly one-sided 2nd time of England's Test against Ireland astatine Lord's.

With Joe Root helping himself to 56 astatine astir a tally a ball, England pulverised the Ireland onslaught successful cleanable batting conditions.

England racked up 524-4 declared, passing 500 wrong 80 overs, the second-fastest successful Test past down their ain stunning 506-4 connected the archetypal time of the archetypal Test against Pakistan successful December.

Faced with an tremendous shortage of 352, Ireland's superior people was not to endure the indignity of decision wrong 2 days.

That became a existent imaginable erstwhile England debutant Josh Tongue took his archetypal and 2nd Test wickets - Peter Moor and Andrew Balbirnie - successful his archetypal over.

Tongue, 25, was besides the bowler erstwhile James McCollum injured his close ankle trying to evade a bouncer, efficaciously leaving the Irish 25-3.

In a hostile spell, Tongue past had Paul Stirling caught down the limb side, but Harry Tector and Lorcan Tucker dragged Ireland to 97-3 astatine the close, inactive 255 behind.

Carnage successful predictable mismatch

With England 152-1 overnight, 20 down Ireland's first-innings 172, it seemed nailed connected that the location broadside would heap connected arsenic galore runs arsenic they pleased.

Sure enough, carnage ensued. On a level transportation nether lukewarm prima and against an inexperienced onslaught lacking immoderate benignant of cutting edge, England's batters gorged themselves.

This was Test cricket successful sanction only, arsenic England were capable to adhd 372 runs astatine astir 7 an implicit with minimal effort. It was hard to not consciousness sympathy for the Irish, whose task of stopping the England juggernaut has proved beyond overmuch stronger sides.

The mismatch continued erstwhile England took the shot acknowledgment to Tongue's venomous spell of 3-27.

Moor was lbw to Tongue's archetypal shot earlier Balbirnie chopped behind. In Tongue's 2nd over, determination was the worrying show of McCollum, swivelling to debar a abbreviated ball, collapsing to the level successful evident distress earlier being helped disconnected the tract and taken from the crushed by ambulance.

Stirling astatine slightest steadied with Tector earlier a reappraisal detected a mitt down the limb broadside and Tongue's viciousness continued erstwhile helium struck Tucker connected the helmet. Somehow, Tector had battled to 33 and Tucker to 21 erstwhile the mercy of the adjacent came.

Pope and Duckett tuck into tally feast

Pope and Duckett are 2 of the galore occurrence stories successful this epoch of the England Test squad - Pope since his elevation to fig 3 past summer, Duckett aft his callback to unfastened the batting during the winter.

Duckett chopped the archetypal shot of the time for four, mounting the signifier for the adjacent 2 sessions. England scored 173 earlier lunch, past different 178 betwixt luncheon and tea.

Duckett chopped and clipped the seamers, past swept and slog-swept the rotation of Andy McBrine successful his 2nd Test hundred. In moving from his overnight 60 to 161 astatine lunch, the left-hander became the archetypal batter since 1924 to people 100 runs earlier luncheon successful a Lord's Test.

He was connected people for the fastest treble 100 successful a Test successful this state earlier helium inside-edged a thrust astatine Graham Hume onto his ain stumps, ending a basal of 252 with Pope.

The grounds alternatively went to Pope, who played gorgeous screen drives and hared betwixt the wickets. His 100 concern with Root, who was playing reverse-scoops arsenic aboriginal arsenic the 12th shot helium faced, came from lone 79 balls - England's third-quickest of each time.

When Root got to 52, helium became lone the 2nd England batter aft Alastair Cook to scope 11,000 Test runs.

He was bowled aft tea, charging astatine McBrine, leaving Pope to spell to 200 with a loft implicit the long-on bound - his 3rd six.

Pope was stumped adjacent ball, prompting the declaration. England's wide run-rate of 6.34 is their highest ever successful a location Test innings lasting much than 20 overs, and second-highest anyplace for an innings of astatine slightest 50 overs.