Joe Root, England vs Sri Lanka Test: These days the England team is playing a 3 match Test series against Sri Lanka at home. During this time, English star Joe Root’s bat is doing very well. He has scored a historic century by playing a stormy innings in the second Test. Due to this innings, Root has also equaled the record of most centuries for England.
In fact, by winning the first match of the series by 5 wickets, England has taken a 1-0 lead in the series. Now the second match is being played at Lord’s from 29 August.
England batted first after losing the toss and scored 358 runs for 7 wickets by the end of the first day. Milan Ratnayake, Lahiru Kumara and Asith Fernando took 2-2 wickets for Sri Lanka.
While Gus Atkinson is unbeaten on 74 and Matthew Potts on 20. Meanwhile, on the first day, Joe Root played a brilliant innings of 143 runs in 206 balls. He hit 18 fours in this innings. This was the 33rd century of Joe Root’s career. In this way, he has equaled Alastair Cook’s record.
Former English opener Alastair Cook also scored 33 centuries in his Test career. He is the batsman who has scored the most Test centuries for England. Now Root has also equaled him. This means that as soon as Joe Root scores the next century, he will surpass Cook in terms of this record and will become the batsman who has scored the most Test centuries for England.
Root can also break this record of Sachin
With the amazing form that 33-year-old Joe Root is in, one of Sachin Tendulkar’s records is also on his radar. This is of scoring the most fifties in Test cricket. Currently, Sachin holds the record of scoring the most fifties in Test cricket, i.e. 68. Whereas Joe Root has scored 64 fifties so far and is at number three.
At number two is former West Indies legend Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who scored 66 half-centuries. Among active players, only Joe Root is very close to Sachin’s record. Among active players, after Joe Root, only Australia’s former captain, 35-year-old Steve Smith, is next. But he is far behind with 41 fifties.
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