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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In the fifth Test against India, a century root Joe Root has taken a big record. This is the third century of Joe Root in this series. At the same time, this is the 39th century of route in Test cricket. Root has scored more than 500 runs in this series. For the third time Joe Root has scored more than 500 runs in the Test series against India. He is the only batsman in the world to do so.

Joe Root completed a century in 137 balls in the fifth Test being played at Kennington Oval. During this, 12 fours came out of his bat. Root has brought England close to victory in this match. This is the 13th century of Joe Root in the Test against India. At the same time, this is the 16th century of route against India in international cricket.

Earlier, the amazing West of West Indies, Zaheer Abbas of Pakistan, Younis Khan of Pakistan, Gary Sobers of West Indies and Ricky Potting of Australia were done by Ricky Potting of Australia. All these veterans scored more than 500 runs in the Test series against India twice. Now Root has left all these veterans behind. Root has scored more than 500 runs against India thrice.

More than 500 runs against India in a Test series

3 – Joe Root (England) **
2 – Everton Weex (West Indies)
2 – Zaheer Abbas (Pakistan)
2 – Younis Khan (Pakistan)
2 – Gary Sobers (West Indies)
2 – Ricky Ponting (Australia)

This was the performance of the route in the Test series against India

Joe Root has played all five Tests of this series. During this time, he has scored 534 runs so far. Root has scored 3 centuries in this series. However, Shubman Gill has scored the most runs in the series. Gill has 754 runs. Root is currently at number two. Root’s highest score in the series is 150 runs.

By the end of the third day in the Manchester Test, England have scored 544 runs at the loss of 7 wickets. England’s total lead in the first innings has been 186 runs, as the Indian team’s first innings was reduced to 358 runs. On the third day, Captain Ben Stokes is playing 77 runs till the stumps, along with Liam Dawson is also firmly standing at the crease.

On the third day, England carried out their score from 225/2. In the first session, Joe Root and Oli Pope beat the Indian bowlers fiercely. Together, both of them sent Team India to the backfoot on a partnership of 144 runs. After lunch, the Indian captain showed confidence in the spinners and entrusted the responsibility of taking wickets to Washington Sundar and Ravindra Jadeja. Sundar, while proving this strategy right, dismissed Oli Pope on a score of 71, after him, Sundar also walked Harry Brook.

It seemed as if India is making a comeback in the match, when the giant partnership of Joe Root and Ben Stokes sent Team India again to the backfoot. During the match, Ben Stokes returned to the pavilion after retiring hurt, but he came to bat again amidst the start of the wicket fall.

Joe Root has made many records while playing an innings of 150 runs. In the history of Test cricket, he has come second in terms of scoring the most runs leaving Rahul Dravid, Jack Kallis and Ricky Ponting. Along with this, he has also become the batsman to score the most centuries (12) against India in Tests. Route stumped out at a score of 150. The England team is moving towards a lead of at least 250 runs.

Talking about Indian bowling, Jasprit Bumrah was seen wandering from the rhythm, whose bowling speed also recorded a decline. At the same time, the same situation with Anshul Kamboj, who debuted. Till now Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar have taken two wickets each. At the same time, Jaspreet Bumrah, Anshul Kamboj and Mohammad Siraj have taken one wicket each.

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In future, whenever there will be talk of all-time great players in the test, the name of Joe Root will be taken in them. Has scored more than 13,000 runs, 38 centuries have been hit in red-ball cricket. His process of setting records in England and abroad also has been going on for a long time. Now claims are being made that Route may soon break Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 15,921 runs. Know here how far the route is the route of Sachin’s record and how much time will it take to set this record?

Route still behind Sachin so many runs behind

First of all, look at Sachin Tendulkar’s record, he scored 15,921 runs in 200 Tests. During the Manchester Test, Joe Root has come second in terms of scoring the most runs. He has surpassed Ricky Ponting’s record of 13,378 runs. Since the routes are not yet out in the Manchester Test, Ponting’s record is seen from the situation of breaking up, Route is still more than two and a half thousand runs behind Sachin.

In how many days Sachin’s record will break?

Joe Root has to score more than 2,500 runs to demolish Sachin Tendulkar’s record. Looking at the current form of the root, in the last five years, there have been only 2 such occasions when they have scored less than one thousand runs in the whole year. These include 2025, in which he has scored more than 400 runs. Root is still 34 years old and even if he scored 800-1000 runs annually, it will take about 2 to two and a half years to get ahead of Sachin Tendulkar.

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Joe Root is 1 run away from its 37th International Test century. Today is the second day of the third Test being played at India vs England Lord’s Cricket Ground, Root will carry forward his innings from 99 and will overtake Steve Smith, Rahul Dravid in terms of most centuries in the Test as soon as he scored 1 runs. Apart from this, he can also make many records.

In the third Test being played between India and England at Lord’s, Ben Stokes won the toss and chose the first batting. The host did not start well and was dismissed cheaply by Jack Crolya (18) and Ben Docket (23), both were dismissed by Nitish Kumar Reddy in the 14th over. After this, Joe Root held the innings with Oli Pope (44) and shared a significant partnership of 109 runs. Pope was dismissed by Jadeja and after that Harry Brook (11) was also dismissed cheaply.

This big record which is recorded in the name of the route

Today, when the route will score 1 run, he will complete his 37th century in Test cricket, he will become the highest century batsman among the players playing currently. Right now he is equivalent to Steve Smith (36 centuries) in this case.

The highest century in Test cricket

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

In the case of most Test centuries, he will also leave Rahul Dravid behind, Dravid had scored 36 centuries in his Test career. He can also leave Dravid behind in terms of most Test runs, for this he has to score 75 more runs. He is at the top of all the players currently playing in terms of most Test runs.

Top 5 batsmen who scored the most runs in Test cricket

1. Sachin Tendulkar- 15921
2. Ricky Ponting- 13378
3. Jack Callis- 13289
4. Rahul Dravid- 13288
5. Joe Root- 13214*

Joe Root made these records on the first day

Root played an unbeaten innings of 99 runs on the first day at Lord’s against India. As soon as he took the 45th run in this innings, he completed 3000 Test runs against India. Root has become the first batsman in the world to score 3000 runs in Tests against Team India.

After this, he completed his fifty. In Test cricket, he scored 50 Plus for the 103rd time. He has come on par with Jack Kallis and Ricky Ponting in this case, now Sachin Tendulkar (119) is ahead of him.

Joe Root has created history in the India-England Third Test being played at Lord’s. He has become the first player to complete 3,000 runs against India in Test cricket. He had already recorded the record of scoring the most runs against India in Red-Ball format. Root has achieved this position in his 60th Test innings against India. He created history as soon as he scored 45 runs in Lord’s Test.

Before the Lord’s Test match started, Joe Root scored 2,955 runs in 59 innings against India. In the third Test match, he has achieved this historic position as soon as he added 45 runs in his innings. India played their first Test match about 93 years ago, since then more than 300 players have played Test matches against India. After beating all of them, Joe Root has become the first player to complete 3,000 Test runs against India.

Batsman who scored the most Test runs against India

Joe Root has become players to complete three thousand runs against India. In this list, he is followed by Ricky Ponting in second place, who scored 2,555 runs against Team India. Joe Root’s compatriot Alastair Cook scored 2,431 runs against Team India and Steve Smith has so far scored 2,356 runs against India. The list also includes Clive Lloyd of the West Indies, who scored 2,344 runs against India in Test career.

• Joe Route – 3000+ runs
• Ricky Ponting – 2,555 runs
• Alastair Cook – 2,431 runs
• Steve Smith – 2,356 runs
• Clive Lloyd – 2,344 runs

Joe Root’s Test record on Indian grounds has also been good. He has so far scored 1,272 runs in 30 innings at an average of more than 45.

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