IND vs ENG 2nd Test – Joe Root Records: England captain Joe Root continued his extra-ordinary form against India to hit yet another big century in the 2nd Test at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Saturday. Root stayed unbeaten on 180. This is Joe Root’s 22nd Test century and 7th against India. He went on to covert the ton into a Daddy Hundred by scoring 150. This is Joe Root’s 6th 150 plus score which is the most for any English captain in Test cricket & during the knock he also completed 9,000 test runs. Check big records set by Root during his innings of 180*
IND vs ENG 2nd Test: 10 big records set by Joe Root during his innings of 180*, check details
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Maximum 150+ Test scores for England
11 – Alastair Cook/JOE ROOT
10 – Walter Hammond/Len Hutton/Kevin Pietersen
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Maximum 150+ scores for England as Test captain
6 – JOE ROOT
5 – David Gower/Alastair Cook
4 – Graham Gooch#EngvInd #EngvsInd #IndvEng— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) August 14, 2021
2️⃣ centuries in the series
5️⃣ in 2021@root66 is a special, special player 🔥
Scorecard/Clips: https://t.co/VfBK5tC0CY
🏴 #ENGvIND 🇮🇳 | #RedForRuth pic.twitter.com/BneWn5Lue5
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) August 14, 2021
Run machine! 👏
Keep going, @root66 👊
Scorecard/Clips: https://t.co/GW3VJ3wfDv@IGcom | 🏴 #ENGvIND 🇮🇳 | #RedForRuth pic.twitter.com/pQsqyvMv4y
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) August 14, 2021
IND vs ENG 2nd Test – Joe Root Records: Root earlier scored a ton in the first Test as well and was named Man of the match for scoring a century in the second inning and a fifty in the first.
With this century Joe Root has put England in good position in Lord’s test. With this century he also completed 9,000 Test runs for England.
IND vs ENG 2nd Test: 10 big records set by Joe Root during his innings of 180*, check details
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- Joe Root last 4 Test innings against India at home: 125, 64, 109, 106
- Joe Root – now has seven Test 100s against India. Only Gary Sobers, Viv Richards, Ricky Ponting & Steve Smith have 8 Test 100s against India
- Joe Root is the first England player to score hundreds in successive innings in Tests since Ian Bell in Ashes 2013. In this period every other team, except Afg & Ire, had at least one batsman doing so.
- Fewest days taken to aggregate 9000 Test runs (from the debut) 3167 Joe Root 3381 Alastair Cook 3662 Rahul Dravid 4004 Ricky Ponting 4124 Kumar Sangakkara 4249 Graeme Smith 4350 Jacques Kallis
- Great batsman, great innings. Century number 22 by Joe Root. Only two Englishmen now have more Test hundreds – Kevin Pietersen 23 and Alastair Cook 33.
- Fewest days from debut to 9000 Test runs
3167 JOE ROOT
3380 Alastair Cook
3661 Rahul Dravid
4003 Ricky Ponting - Youngest at the time for 9000 Test runs
30y 159d Alastair Cook
30y 227d JOE ROOT
30y 253d Sachin Tendulkar
31y 341d Ricky Ponting -
Joe Root – Simply outstanding:
22nd century : Joint third most by an England player
11th century as a captain : Joint second most among England skippers
9000 Test runs : Second youngest to achieve the feat#ENGvsIND— Umang Pabari (@UPStatsman) August 14, 2021
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Fewest days taken to aggregate 9000 Test runs
(from the debut)3167 Joe Root
3381 Alastair Cook
3662 Rahul Dravid
4004 Ricky Ponting
4124 Kumar Sangakkara
4249 Graeme Smith
4350 Jacques Kallis#ENGvIND #INDvENG— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) August 14, 2021
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Joe Root is the first England player to score hundreds in successive innings in Tests since Ian Bell in Ashes 2013. In this period every other team, except Afg & Ire, had at least one batsman doing so.#ENGvIND
— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks) August 14, 2021
IND vs ENG: Joe Root goes past Graham Gooch to become second-highest run-scorer for England in Tests- England captain Joe Root has added another feather to his cap in Test cricket. He has gone past Graham Gooch to become the second-highest run-scorer in Test cricket. He achieved the landmark during the second test against India at Lord’s. Former England captain Alastair Cook holds the top spot with 11,000 runs.
| Player | Span | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AN Cook | 2006-2018 | 161 | 291 | 16 | 12472 | 294 | 45.35 | 33 | 57 | 9 |
| JE Root | 2012-2021 | 107* | 196 | 15 | 8912 | 254 | 49.23 | 21 | 50 | 8 |
| GA Gooch | 1975-1995 | 118 | 215 | 6 | 8900 | 333 | 42.58 | 20 | 46 | 13 |
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IND vs ENG: Joe Root goes past Graham Gooch to become second-highest run-scorer for England in Tests
Furthermore, the England skipper is now 2nd fastest batsman to score 2,000 runs against India. Joe Root has scored 2,000 runs in only 39 innings. He is only behind Pakistan’s Javed Miandad who took 35 innings to achieve the record. In terms of total runs tally against India, Joe Root is currently at 7th behind former Australia captain Michael Clarke who scored 2049 runs. For England, he is currently the 2nd highest scorer in Test cricket against India behind Alastair Cook, who scored 2,431 runs against India.
| Player | Span | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RT Ponting (AUS) | 1996-2012 | 29 | 51 | 4 | 2555 | 257 | 54.36 | 8 | 12 | 4 |
| AN Cook (ENG) | 2006-2018 | 30 | 54 | 3 | 2431 | 294 | 47.66 | 7 | 9 | 1 |
| CH Lloyd (WI) | 1966-1983 | 28 | 44 | 4 | 2344 | 242* | 58.60 | 7 | 12 | 1 |
| Javed Miandad (PAK) | 1978-1989 | 28 | 39 | 6 | 2228 | 280* | 67.51 | 5 | 14 | 1 |
| S Chanderpaul (WI) | 1994-2013 | 25 | 44 | 10 | 2171 | 140 | 63.85 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| MJ Clarke (AUS) | 2004-2014 | 22 | 40 | 2 | 2049 | 329* | 53.92 | 7 | 6 | 2 |
| JE Root (ENG) | 2012-2021 | 22* | 39 | 4 | 2010 | 218 | 57.42 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
The 30-year-old is only 1 win behind overtaking Michael Vaughan as most successful captain in Tests for England. The two of them stand equally with 26 wins each.
Notably, the right-handed batsman needs a couple of tons to equal Kevin Pietersen’s tally of 23 tons in Test cricket.
The England batsman is in phenomenal form. He has slammed a century and fifty in the opening Test at Nottingham. He has slammed 21 centuries and 50 fifties in his Test career. The 30-year-old will be now looking to cross 9000 runs in Test cricket.
IND vs ENG: Joe Root goes past Graham Gooch to become second-highest run-scorer for England in Tests
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