Joe Root Creates History in India vs England Test Series 2024. This series is part of the 2023-25 Test Championship. India lead the five-Test series 2-1.
Joe Root came under fire from the English media for his poor showing in the first three Tests of the series. Root did not score a single fifty in the first three matches.
Following lunch on Day 1, England’s innings collapsed until star batsman Root struck a valiant fifty in the fourth Test match against India at the JSCA International Stadium in Ranchi on February 23. In the Test match against India, Joe Root Creates History and tied with Ricky Ponting for the legendary record. In red-ball cricket, Joe Root and Ricky Ponting Jointly lead with 20 fifties against India.
In the list of most fifty-plus scores hit against India, Root and Ponting are clear at the top with 20 each. Joe Root overtook Javed Miandad of Pakistan, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, and the late Clive Lloyd of the West Indies, who together had 19 Test half centuries and Alastair Cook (17) find themselves on the list.
After dropping five wickets before lunch, Root’s fifty helped him regain control of the game. The visitors had optimism for a fight in the contest because to his partnership with wicketkeeper-batsman Ben Foakes.
Currently, Root has broken Australian captain Ricky Ponting’s record for most runs against India in the longest format in the Hyderabad Test.
The statistics of the number of runs scored by Root in Test matches till Ranchi Test are given. Root scored 2603 runs. In red ball cricket i.e. test, Root has the precedent of scoring the most runs against India. Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting previously held the record for most runs against India in the longest format. He scored 2555 runs.
Alastair Cook, another former England batsman, comes in third place. He ran for 2431 runs. With 2344 runs, former Caribbean captain Clive Lloyd is ranked fourth. Fifth place goes to Javed Miandad, a former cricket player for Pakistan. He ran for 2228 runs.
The right-handed batsman has so far played 13 Tests on Indian soil. Batted in 26 innings. He scored a total of 1029 runs.
Sunil Gavaskar holds the record for most runs in India vs England Test series on Indian soil. He scored 1331 runs in 22 matches. Alastair Cook is second in the list. He scored 1235 runs in 13 matches. Gundappa Vishwanath is third in the list with 1022 runs in 17 matches. Virat Kohli is in fifth place with 1015 runs in 13 matches. Sachin Tendulkar at the sixth position has scored 960 runs in 15 matches.
Joe Root became the highest run scorer in the history of India vs England Test cricket. Sachin scored 2535 runs in 32 matches .
Root has played 51 matches in the World Test Championship so far and scored a total of 4093 runs.
