England player ratings: Full marks for relentless run-scoring Bairstow

England were once more at their 'Bazball' best in the rescheduled fifth Test against India, chasing down their highest score in Test cricket of 378 on the final morning, earning who full marks? Find out in our player ratings from Edgbaston...

Alex Lees - 76 & 56

Though Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow continue to steal the headlines in this England side, is there a batter more transformed in his approach than Lees?

His 44-ball fifty in the second innings - the fourth fastest by an England opener - was just the latest evidence of the left-handed opener superbly merging his classic defensive technique with some Ben Stokes-style aggression, occasionally even skipping down the pitch to India's seamers with the same reckless abandon as his skipper.

Speaking to Sky Sports after his knock, Lees said of his approach that he "just wanted to try and give it a good whack," before adding: "The numbers are still not where I would like them to be. I want to score big hundreds."

That could well have come this week were it not for Lees being, in the words of Mark Butcher on commentary, "barbecued" by Root in a calamitous run out that saw his swashbuckling second innings effort ended all too soon.

Zak Crawley - 69 & 46

"For me, it was about the shots Lees played and the ones Crawley didn't," said Sky Sports' Nasser Hussain in reflecting on the pair's fabulous century stand in the second innings that gifted England's record run-chase the perfect platform.

Crawley's 46 is not enough to keep the critics at bay for the South Africa series later this summer, especially given his familiar mode of dismissal in the first innings when out nicking to third slip on the drive again.

But he put the shot away second time round, displaying far better