Joe Root has 2 running on Sunday. scored a brilliant century against New Zealand inRa Test at Trent Bridge Nottingham. The former England captain brought up triple figures in just 115 balls, making it his fastest play in the longest format of the game.
This is Route 27. wasth Test ton with which he equaled the previous record India captain Virat Kohli And Steve Smith, former Australia captain in terms of most Test centuries among active cricketers. Interestingly, Kohli hasn’t scored a century since 2019 and Smith hasn’t reached the three-figure mark since January 2021. However, the route has received 10 tonnes in the last one-and-a-half years; in all of them World Test Championship.
The 31-year-old former England captain became the first player in the history of the World Test Championship to score more than 3,000 runs. according to international Cricket Council, he now has almost 1,000 more WTC runs than his nearest rival in Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne, 2180 runs.
The current ICC Test Player of the Year has also moved up to second place in the rankings for Test batsmen, with Labuschagne being the only player ahead of him. This prompted Root to garner praise from fellow teammates, with fellow Centurion Pope calling the former captain the best English player of all time.
“We are looking at England’s greatest player ever,” Pope told BBC Sport. “To see him do what he is doing at the moment, it is amazing. Glad to be a part of it.”
Former England captain Michael Vaughan agrees with Pope. “We are seeing something special. I have known Joe for years and I really believe he is the greatest player England has ever had,” Vaughan said. “He is so happy to watch and he makes batting so easy .
“It’s just that drive and determination. You just have to have an incredible appetite to score a century,” he said.
Thanks to Root’s unbeaten 163, his second consecutive century in the current series and Olly Pope’s 145, England posted a convincing reply to New Zealand’s first innings total of 553, reaching 473/5 at stumps on the third day on Sunday. reached at. The hosts, who won the opening Test at Lord’s, are only 80 runs away from the visitors’ first innings total.
(with agency input)
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