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Joe Root faced 248 balls against India in the first innings of the fourth Test and scored 150 runs with the help of 14 fours. During the innings of 150 runs in the first innings of the Manchester Test, Joe looks at the 11 records broken by Root.
Joe became the first English batsman to score 1000 Test runs in Old Trafford in Route Manchester. He crossed the 1000 run mark with 22 runs on the third day.
After Graham Gooch and Alastair Cook, Joe Root is the third English batsman to score more than 1000 Test runs on two English Test Venu. Root has 2166 runs in Lord’s and 1128 runs in Old Trafford.
Joe Root has crossed the 50 -run figure 104 times in the Test. Former South African all -rounder Jacques Kallis and Australian veteran Ricky Ponting are one more than the 103 figure.
Joe Root became the first batsman in the world to score 12 Test centuries against India. Australia’s Steve Smith is second in 24 matches with 11 centuries.
Joe Root equaled Jack Hobbes’s record to score the most Test century for England against a team. Hobbes scored 12 centuries in 41 Tests against Australia.
Joe Root has now scored nine Test centuries against India at home, which is the highest against any opposing team in domestic Test by a batsman. Don Bradman is second with eight centuries.
Joe Root has equaled Kumar Sangakkara’s record of 38 centuries in Test cricket. Only Tendulkar (51), Kallis (45), and Ponting (41) are ahead of them.
The century route against India in Manchester has a 23rd Test century in England, which is the highest for anyone in domestic tests, with Ricky Ponting, Jacks Kallis and Mahela Jayawardene.
Joe Root became the third highest run batsman in the Test, overtaking Rahul Dravid (13,288) and then Jacks Kallis (13,289). He broke Ricky Ponting’s record of 13,378 runs and became the second highest run batsman in Test cricket.
Joe Root now also holds the record of scoring the most runs in Test cricket against a bowler. Root has scored 588 runs against Ravindra Jadeja’s bowling in Test cricket. Steve Smith is second against England’s Stuart Broad with 577 runs.
Joe Root has scored a total of 7195 Test runs in England, which is more than Jayawardene’s 7167 run figure in Sri Lanka. Only Ponting (7578 in Australia) and Tendulkar (7216 in India) are ahead of them.