The second Ashes Test between Australia and England is being played in Brisbane. In this match, Joe Root has scored the 40th century of his Test career (Joe Root 40th Century). This is the first time that Root has scored a Test century on Australian soil. Joe Root has now become the eighth England cricketer to score a Test century at the historic ground of Gabba. Before him, 7 cricketers including Andrew Strauss and Ian Botham had done this.

Did this for the first time in 13 years

Joe Root made his Test debut against India in 2012. Till now, Root had scored centuries in 7 different countries, but had not been able to play any century innings in Australia till now. Till now, Joe Root’s highest individual score in Australia was 89 runs, but now he has ended his century drought on Australian soil.

Joe Root has now become one of the players who have played the most innings to score his first Test century in Australia. Root got the pleasure of scoring a century in Australia after waiting for 30 innings. Before him, Ian Healy (41 innings), Bob Simpson (36 innings), Gordon Greenidge (32 innings) and Steve Waugh also had to wait for 32 innings to score their first century in Australia.

Status of second Ashes test

The second Ashes Test is being played at the Gabba ground in Brisbane. In this match, England won the toss and chose to bat first. Till the time of writing this article, England has scored 272 runs. Joe Root scored the 40th test century of his career. Root is currently at fourth place in terms of scoring most centuries in Test cricket history. Sachin Tendulkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45) and Ricky Ponting (41) are ahead of him in the list of most centuries.

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Joe Root has created history in the Manchester Test against India. He carried out the 38th century of his Test career in 178 balls. With this, he has equaled Kumar Sangakkara in terms of scoring the most centuries in Test cricket. Root has also made a record of scoring the most centuries against India in Tests with this. This is his total 12th Test century against India.

The highest century against India in Test

Joe Root has now scored 12 centuries against India in his historic Test career. Prior to the Manchester Test, Joe Root and Steve Smith were jointly seated in the first place with 11 centuries in this case. Now the routes have gone to the forefront. Let us know that apart from Smith and Route, no other batsman has touched the figure of 10 Test centuries against India.

• Joe Root – 12 centuries
• Steve Smith – 11 centuries
• Gary Sobers – 8 centuries
• Viv Richards – 8 centuries
• Ricky Ponting – 8 centuries

The highest century in the test

Joe Root has now jointly finished fourth in terms of scoring the most centuries in Test cricket. Kumar Sangakkara and Joe Root now have 38 centuries in Tests. In this case, only Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jack Kallis are ahead of him. Root has already become the batsman to score the most centuries for England in the first Test.

• Sachin Tendulkar – 51 centuries
• Jack Callis – 45 centuries
• Ricky Ponting – 41 centuries
• Joe Root – 41 centuries
• Kumar Sangakkara – 38 centuries

If you look at the India-England Manchester Test, England has completely dominated. India had scored 358 runs in the first innings, while England has already crossed the 400-run mark before T-Breck on the third day.

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A shocking view was seen on the ground on the first day of the Bharat vs England third Test being played at Lord’s Cricket Ground, when Ladibirds attacked the ground. Jasprit Bumrah was seen escaping from this attack, which also harassed the route and other players. Due to this, the match stopped for some time, its video is going viral.

Ben Stokes, who chose bowling in the first two Tests, decided to bat first in the third Test. Unlike the bezball style, England played Sambhalkar and Sayam full innings, scoring 251 runs losing 4 wickets till the first day’s play was over. Shortly before the end of the day’s play, Ladibirds attacked Lord’s.

Please tell that ladybird is also known as Ladibag and Lady Beetle. There is a small, round, bright colored worm, which is red or orange in color.

Jasprit Bumrah is seen surviving

The attack of these insects took place about 15 minutes before the first day’s play ended. Fielding Jasprit Bumrah was seen avoiding it, he was constantly blowing him by hand. The herd of these insects had come on the field, the batting of Bumrah who were also seen escaping from them. On seeing this, this flock also reached other players, after which the match had to be stopped. The match stayed for about 5 minutes, then started again after they left.

A swarm of ladybirds stops play at Lord’s! pic.twitter.com/49lkhyhxwn

– Sky Sports Cricket (@Skycrick) July 10, 2025

First day of third test

England decided to bat first. Nitish Kumar Reddy gave India the first success, he caught the 14th of the innings and Ben Docket (23) was caught behind the wicket in his first over. After this, he also caught Zack Croly (18) on the last ball of this over by wicket -keeper Rishabh Pant.

After this, England started batting carefully, which shared a 109 -run partnership between the route and Oli Pope, it was broken by Ravindra Jadeja. He caught the Pope (44) out. Harry Brook (11) was dismissed by Jaspreet Bumrah. After this, Ben Stokes came, who remained unbeaten till the end of the day’s play. Today, on the second day, the England team will extend their innings beyond 251, Root 99 and Stokes 39 are unbeaten.

On the first day of the third Test being played at India vs England Lord’s Cricket Ground, Joe Root was playing on 98 runs. Batting for 98 runs with Ben Stokes, Root ran and took a run, he also wanted to take a second run but the ball went into Ravindra Jadeja’s hands. Jadeja gave him the open challenge to show him the second run, but the route went back back and his fear was also valid.

Root scared of Ravindra Jadeja’s challenge

This is the incident when the route who was playing 98 runs off 190 balls, the day’s game was about to end. The last over was putting Akash Deep, on the fourth ball of this over, Root hit a shot which went into the hands of Ravindra Jadeja standing near the boundary. Root and Stokes completed one run fast and for the second run, the route came to half the crease. But as soon as he saw that the ball is with Jadeja, he stopped.

Jadeja gave an open challenge to the route and pointed out with hands and said that he was shown with another run. On this, the route started to retreat, then Jadeja put the ball down and then said in a gesture that take the second run. Root did not make a mistake of taking a second run and withdraws smiling, due to which he could not complete his century on the first day. Jadeja is counted among the best fielders in the world, so all the batsmen of the world are afraid of him.

Rule #1: Never Risk It With @imjadeja
Rule #2: If you forget rule #1 #ENGVIND 3rd Test Day 2 Fri, July 11, 2:30 PM Streaming on Jiohotstar! pic.twitter.com/6CHOBVFSBL

– Star Sports (@StarsportsIndia) July 10, 2025

Root closer to creating history

The route who has to score only 1 run to complete his century on the second day, he is playing at 99. He will become the player who scored the most Test century as soon as he scored 1 run, who is currently playing. He and Steve Smith currently have 36-36 centuries.

Top 10 batsmen who scored the most centuries in Tests

1. Sachin Tendulkar- 51
2. Jack Callis- 45
3. Ricky Ponting- 41
4. Kumar Sangakkara- 38
5. Steve Smith- 36
6. Joe Root- 36
7. Rahul Dravid- 36
8. Unis Khan- 34
9. Sunil Gavaskar- 34
10. Brian Lara- 34