New Delhi: It is not only difficult but impossible to stop Joe Root Century. Joe Root has proved this in the Test series against India. The England captain scored a century in the Leeds Test (India vs England, 3rd Test) and thus achieved the feat of crossing the 100-run mark in the third consecutive Test. Joe Root scored a century in the Nottingham Test, after which he also managed to score an unbeaten century at Lord’s and now he also scored a century hat-trick in Leeds.
Joe Root (Joe Root 3rd Consecutive Century) showed his attitude in Nottingham itself when he scored first 64 and then 109 on a very difficult pitch. Joe Root scored an unbeaten 180 at Lord’s. However, in the second innings, he was dismissed for 33 runs. Despite his century, England lost the battle of the Lord’s. But in Leeds, Root once again broke the Indian bowlers as a disaster and he scored the 23rd century of his Test career in just 124 balls.
The English captain has scored centuries in the first two Test matches against India (India vs England). Seeing his dangerous batting, Javed Miandad, Ricky Ponting, and Clive Lloyd are remembered. Root has overtaken Miandad in the matter of scoring the most runs against India as soon as he took the 54th run in the Leeds Test.
Joe showed England the ‘root’ of victory
Joe Root stepped on the crease after losing the wicket of Haseeb Hameed. On the Leeds pitch, where the legendary batsmen like Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara could not even stand, Root started playing amazing shots as soon as he came. Seeing this, the England captain hit his half-century in just 57 balls, and seeing the kind of form Root is in, it seemed that this batsman would not stop in less than a century. Root did the same and hit a century with the help of 12 fours.
Root’s record-breaking century
During his 23rd Test century, Joe Root also destroyed many records. Joe Root is the only player in the world who has scored three consecutive Test centuries twice. Not only this, but Joe Root also became the captain of England with the highest run-scorer in a calendar year. He broke the record of Alastair Cook who scored 1364 runs in 2015. Root crossed this figure in the first innings of the Leeds Test. Let us tell you that Joe Root has scored 6 Test centuries in this calendar year, out of which 4 have been made against India only. Joe Root has scored a total of 8 Test centuries against India. He has joined the ranks of legends like Steve Smith, Vivian Richards, Gary Sobers, and Ricky Ponting. Joe Root is often criticized for his conversion rate (the fifties to centuries) but this year it is not so.
