Joe Root carved out an excellent double century in his a hundredth Test and helped England attain a dominant place on the second day of the primary Test towards India on Saturday. Root grew to become the primary cricketer to make a double hundred in his a hundredth Test match.
Resuming at his lunch rating of 156, Root continued to bat in a serene method, gathering runs with ease, and reached his double hundred with a six off Ravichandran Ashwin. Root is the primary Englishman to deliver up a double hundred with a six. He’s the nineteenth batsman general to take action and the primary since Mayank Agarwal towards Bangladesh in November 2019.
Root has now scored 5 double centuries in Test cricket; solely Wally Hammond has posted extra for England (7).
According to Cricbuzz, that is now the best particular person rating for an English captain in India. In all India-England Test matches, the one English captain to attain extra is Graham Gooch (333 at Lord’s, 1990)
Root has additionally equaled Graeme Smith and Rahul Dravid’s tally of 5 double centuries in Test cricket.
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On Day 2, en path to his double ton, Root smashed a boundary to succeed in 160 and went previous India batting nice Sachin Tendulkar to climb up the desk in a singular report. Root now has 8,406 runs in 100 Test matches, toppling the previous Indian cricketer who had scored 8,405 runs in his first 100 Tests.
He can also be the second Test captain to register 150+ scores in three successive Tests since Donald Bradman, who achieved the feat in 1937.
This was Root’s third 150+ rating in consecutive Tests, joint-second-most together with Wally Hammond (1928-29), Don Bradman (1937), Zaheer Abbas (1982-93), Mudassar Nazar (1983), Tom Latham (2018-19). Notably, Kumar Sangakkara (2007) leads the tally with 4 such scores.
