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Joe Root produced a masterclass on the 4th (Sunday, August 3) of the final test in the oval, scoring a brilliant century to guide England near a series victory. Not only did Root anchor the persecution of England, he also surpassed several individual milestones before the rain came to the day’s play.
England resumed the fourth day to 50/1 as he pursued a mammoth target of 374 runs. India took two christeners from England before lunch, reducing the home team to 106/3. However, Joe Root and Harry Brook declared the tickets with a 195 collaboration that changed the impetus in favor of England.
Joe Root scored 105 of 152 balls with 12 boundaries. Prasidh Krishna was dismissed in 73rd, leaving England at 337/6. The bad light and the rain interrupted the game, pushing the series until the day 5. England needs 35 more races for victory, while India requires four doctors to square the series.
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Root became the first cricketter to exceed 6,000 runs in the history of the World Test Championship (WTC). The christening of England has scored 6,080 strokes to an impressive average of 52.86, with 21 centuries and 22 years. Steve Smith is second among Run’s agents, with 4,278 55 -game runs.
Most races of the ICC World Test Championship (2019-2025):
Player | Matches | Healing | Average | 100s/50s |
---|---|---|---|---|
Root Joe | 69* | 6080 | 52.86 | 21/22 |
Steve Smith | 55 | 4278 | 49.74 | 13/19 |
Marnus labuschagne | 53 | 4225 | 48.01 | 11/22 |
Ben Stokes | 57 | 3616 | 37.66 | 08 |
Chief of travis | 52 | 3300 | 40.24 | 08 |
Root added another remarkable milestone to his name with his hundreds of hundreds. It was the 13th time he scored fifty or more in the fourth entry of a test game.
The right hand batter joined an elite list that includes Graeme Smith (41 tickets), Chris Gayle (43 entrances) and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (49 tickets), all of which also reached the 50 -year mark 13 times in the fourth post.
Root got the feat in 53 appearances in the fourth part. It passed in front of the great Sunil Gavaskar Indi, who had 12 such scores. This milestone again revealed the consistency and composition of root in situations of pressure during the persecutions.
Root marked his 39th century on the test cricket. He surpassed Kumar Sangakkara to get fourth place in the list of all times of most hundreds of tests, behind Sachin Tendulkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45) and Ricky Ponting (41).
It was also the 24th root test on home ground, making it the player with more centuries in his own country. It passed in front of Mahela Jayawardene, Jacques Kallis and Ricky Ponting, which each had 23 tons at home.
This was the thirteenth century of Root against India, placing it in the second set for most hundreds against a single opponent in the history of the evidence. Sunil Gavaskar also scored 13 centuries against the West Indies, while Don Bradman runs the list with 19 tons against England.
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