Srinagar: Former England skipper Joe Root has went to equal the record for the Test Centuries with Virat Kohli and Steve Smith.
Joe Root who is currently in unstoppable form scored his second consecutive century in the ongoing Test series against England
reached to ton off just 115 balls, making it the fastest of his career, against New Zealand on day 3 of the second Test at Trent Bridge.
Joe Root has now scored 27 Test centuries, thus equalling the record for most tons in the longest format of the game among active cricketers. India’s Virat Kohli and Australia’s Steve Smith are the other two players on that mark. It is to be noted, however, that Kohli has not scored a Test century since November 2019 whole Smith hasn’t reached three figures since January 2021. Root, on the other hand, has now scored 10 centuries in the last one and a half years.
“27th Test match hundred for England’s finest Joe Root. His fourth hundred in five Test matches. He is the unstoppable run machine,” said former England captain Nasser Hussain in the commentary box.
Root had become just the second England player to go past 10,000 Test runs in the first match at Lord’s. It had prompted many former players to predict that he may just go past Sachin Tendulkar’s record for most career Test runs. Root, 31, crossed 10,100 runs with his innings on Sunday in what is his 119th Test match while Tendulkar had retired at the age of 39 with 15,921 in 200 Tests.
He is currently batting on 168 and is all set for another double ton in hs Test career.
