By the end of the first day’s play, England had scored 325 runs at the loss of 9 wickets. The second Ashes Test is being played at the Gabba ground in Brisbane, in which Joe Root scored the 40th century of his Test career (Joe Root Centuries). By the end of the first day’s play, Joe Root and Joffra Archer had made a brisk partnership of 61 runs in 44 balls.

For England, opener Jack Crawley scored 76 runs, but Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope were out without opening the account. Crawley and Root rescued the England team from trouble by making a partnership of 117 runs. Harry Brook was out after scoring only 31 runs, while captain Ben Stokes was run out by Josh English with an excellent throw.

Joe Root’s historic century

By the end of the first day’s play, Joe Root had scored 135 runs in the second test against Australia. This was the 40th century of his Test career. This is the first time in Test cricket history that Root has scored a Test century on Australian soil. Root has achieved this feat 13 years after his Test debut.

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England lost its 9th wicket at the score of 264. At one time England had scored 273 runs for 9 wickets in 69 overs. After this, Joe Root and Joffra Archer batted stormily and added 52 runs in the next 5 overs. Archer has scored 32 runs in 26 balls and along with Joe Root has made a partnership of 61 runs for the 10th wicket.

The most successful bowler for Australia was Mitchell Starc, who dismissed 6 batsmen in the first innings. Starc has been the most successful bowler in this series so far. So far in this series, he has taken 16 wickets in 43.5 overs.

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It took 13 years, Joe Root did this feat for the first time in his career, created history by scoring a century in the second Ashes

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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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 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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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.

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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