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.

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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

By the end of the first day’s play in the Lord’s Test, England have scored 251 runs losing 4 wickets in the first innings. There was a strong bowling from Team India. By the end of the first day, there has been a 79 -run partnership between Joe Root and Ben Stokes. Root is moving towards the 37th century of his Test career. On the first day, Nitish Kumar Reddy took the most wickets for India, who took 2 wickets.

In the Lord’s Test, England won the toss and selected the first batting. The English team started in a very strict style as Ben Docket and Jack Croly were pushing the scoreboard by doing good batting. Then Nitish Kumar Reddy came to bowl in the 14th over, in this over, he took the wicket of Ben Docket and Jack Croly. Docket scored 23 runs and Croley scored 18 runs.

After this, Oli Pope and Joe Root together shared a 109 -run partnership, but soon after the lunch break, Ravindra Jadeja scored Oli Pope on a score of 44. Harry Brook also could not stay at the crease for long, which Jaspreet Bumrah made a clean bold at a score of 11.

One run away from the root century

England lost the fourth wicket at the score of 172. After that Joe Root and Ben Stokes are sacrificing the badgeball style and batting in a very slow way. By the end of the first day’s play, Joe Root has scored 99 runs in 191 balls. If the route is able to score a run on the second day, then it will be his 11th century against India in Test cricket. He has already recorded the record for the highest Test run and Test century against India. Ben Stokes has scored just 39 runs in 102 balls in a very slow style. Both have been partnership of 79 runs.

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