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