Joe Root: These days, England’s legendary batsman Joe Root is unstoppable in cricket’s longest format, Test cricket. Joe Root, who is considered a part of the Fab-4, is in great form these days, where a tremendous rain of runs is being seen from his bat, where in the second Test match of the Test series being played against Sri Lanka, Joe Root also scored a brilliant century in the second innings. Joe Root, who scored a century in the first innings of the second Test match being played at Lord’s, did not stop until he scored a century in the second innings as well.
Joe Root set a series of records by scoring a century
Joe Root achieved many records by scoring a century in the second innings against Sri Lanka. This English batsman has made a lot of records and has been included in the list of many records by scoring the 34th century of his Test career. While he equaled a record of India’s greatest batsman Sunil Gavaskar, he has also become the best batsman in Test cricket history for England.
Joe Root’s 34th century became witness to many records
England’s legendary batsman Joe Root also scored a century in the second innings of the second Test match against Sri Lanka. With this century, this was the 34th century of Joe Root’s Test career. This century of Root has made him the best batsman of England. This legendary batsman has become the batsman who has scored the most Test centuries for the English team, surpassing the record of 33 Test centuries of former England great batsman Alastair Cook.
Root equalled legends like Gavaskar and Lara
Not only this, Joe Root equaled many great batsmen in terms of scoring the most centuries in Test cricket by scoring his 34th century. Root has now equaled the record of 34 Test centuries of former great Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar, West Indies great batsman Brian Lara, former Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene and Pakistani great Younis Khan. Now he will leave these greats behind as soon as he scores a century.
Joe Root hit the 50th century of his international career
With this century, this star batsman of England has completed his half century of centuries in international cricket. This was the 50th century of Joe Root’s international career. He has scored 16 centuries in ODIs, while he has completed 34 centuries in Tests. He became the 9th batsman to reach 50 centuries in international cricket. Sachin Tendulkar has the highest number of international centuries (100 centuries).