Joe Root made an amazing record in Lord’s Test, became the first batsman in the world to do so against India
India vs england 3rd Test: England legendary batsman Joe Root set a special record in the first innings on the first day of the third Test at Lord’s Stadium against England. During his innings, Root completed his 4000 runs in international cricket against India.
Root has become the first player of England and the fourth player in the world to do this feat against India.
Prior to him, Ricky Ponting, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara did this. Among the active players, Steve Smith is after him, who has scored 3968 runs against India in international cricket.
Apart from this, he also completed his 3000 Test runs against India. He has become the first batsman in the world to score 3000 or more runs in the Test against India.
Apart from this, he is the ninth player who has scored 3000 or more runs against a team in Tests. Before him, Don Bradman, Jack Hobbes. The feat was done by veterans like Sachin Tendulkar, Alan Bord, Steve Smith, David Gover, Gary Sobers and Steve Waugh.
The highest fifty plus score in Test cricket has come jointly second. In the 294 innings, he scored a fifty plus score for the 103rd time and equaled Jack Kallis. In this list, Sachin Tendulkar (119) is ahead of him.
In this series, the performance of the root in the earlier matches was not special, his bat scored only one half -century in four innings.
