The star player of the england team has completed his 37th century in international Test cricket in the third Test match against India. With this, Joe Root has broken the records of rahul dravid and Steve Smith. Not only that, Joe Root has scored 3000 runs against india in international Test cricket. Joe Root has not played much in the last two Test matches. Due to this, he lost the number one spot in the world Test rankings. In this situation, Joe Root had a good record at the Lord's stadium in London. In this situation, openers Jack Crawley scored 18 runs and Bentucket scored 23 runs, while Ollie Pope scored 44 runs. In this situation, Joe Root scored a huge score of 99 runs at the end of the first day's play. Following this, Joe Root started the second day's play today. As expected, Joe Root completed his 37th century.
With this, Joe Root is now fifth in the list of those who scored the most centuries in international Test cricket, surpassing Dravid and Smith. sachin tendulkar is at the top with 51 centuries. Similarly, Joe Root, who scored a hat-trick at Lord's, is completing his eighth century at this stadium. In this situation, Joe Root was expected to score a big innings. But Joe Root was dismissed by Bumrah's bowling when he had scored 104 runs. With this, bumrah has dismissed Joe Root 11 times in the history of Test cricket. Similarly, Joe Root currently has 13,218 runs in the history of international Test cricket. Before him, Dravid has scored 13,288 runs and Kalish has scored 13,289 runs. Ricky Ponting is in second place with 13,378 runs. It is noteworthy that Joe Root will move up to second place before the end of this series.
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Sowmiya Sriram

11/07/2025 06:11 PM