Joe Root’s explosion of 500+ runs against India for the third time, the world’s first batsman to do this unique feat
Joe Root Record: In the fifth Test of India and England, Joe Root won a big milestone. In the second session of the fourth day, Root completed his 500 runs in the series and with this he set a special record in Test history. Root has now become the first batsman to have three different against India Test series500 or more runs have been scored in.
England star batsman Joe Root once again showed why he is considered the most trusted player in the team. In the current Test series against India, he completed 500 runs on Sunday and became the first batsman in the world to cross this figure for the third time in the series against India.
Earlier, West Indies’ Everrton Weex and Gary Sobers, Pakistan’s Zaheer Abbas and Younus Khan, and Ricky Ponting of Australia have scored 500 runs against India twice, but no one could do this for the third time. Joe Root also drowned.
Root needed 68 runs to achieve this feat in the second innings of the Oval Test, which he completed in the second session of the fourth day. Root’s great record against India. He scored 737 runs in the 2021-22 series and in 2014 he scored 518 runs in seven innings of five Tests.
It is also interesting that two of India’s great batsmen Virat Kohli and Sunil Gavaskar have also scored 500+ runs against England, but Root did a step ahead of him and did this feat for the third time.
