Can Joe Root break Sachin Tendulkars records of most Test Runs?
As per report he has scored a century in the second Test being played in Wellington. With an innings of 106 runs in the second innings, he has equaled rahul dravid in terms of scoring the most centuries in Test matches. This was the 36th century of Joe Root's Test career and the sixth in the year 2024. Root's innings has also proved to be match-winning in the second Test of the series.
Meanwhile Joe Root has now come to the fifth position in terms of scoring the most centuries in Test cricket with 36 centuries. In this list, only sachin tendulkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45), Ricky Ponting (41) and Kumar Sangakkara (38) are ahead of him. Root's century also became memorable because when he was playing after scoring 98 runs, he took a big risk and played a scoop shot. Fortunately, the ball hit the bat and went backwards over the wicketkeeper. In this way, he completed his century by collecting a four. During this Test match, Joe Root also became the first player from england and the fourth player in the world to score fifty or more runs 100 times in Test matches. The record of scoring 50 or more runs the most number of times in Test cricket is held by sachin tendulkar, who did this 119 times in his career.
Moreover in this Test match, England's first innings was all out for 280 runs, while in reply, new zealand could score only 125 runs. The match was completely in England's favor and the rest of the work was done by the batsmen. In the second innings, Ben Duckett and Jacob Bethell scored 92 and 96 runs respectively. The rest of the work was done by Joe Root's century. The Kiwi team, which came to chase the huge target of 583 runs, was all out for 259 runs. Captain ben stokes took the maximum of three wickets for England. With the win in the match, england is now ahead 2-0 in the three-Test match series.