India vs England, 3rd Test: Joe Root Equals England Record For Most Test Centuries In Calendar Year

Joe Root equalled the England file for many Take a look at centuries in a calendar 12 months when he compiled his sixth hundred of 2021, in opposition to India at Headingley on Thursday. Solely Denis Compton (1947) and Michael Vaughan (2002) have beforehand scored as many Take a look at a whole lot in a calendar 12 months for England. Root accomplished his third hundred in as many matches on the second day of the third Take a look at at his Yorkshire residence floor when he clipped Ishant Sharma via midwicket for a twelfth 4 in simply 124 balls confronted. He was ultimately out for 121 when he was bowled by Jasprit Bumrah.

This innings adopted his 109 within the rain-marred drawn first Take a look at at Trent Bridge and his 180 not out throughout India’s 151-run win at Lord’s that put the vacationers 1-0 up within the five-match sequence.

However with India dismissed for simply 78 of their first innings on Wednesday, Root’s twenty third Take a look at hundred — solely Alastair Cook dinner with 33 has made extra for England — noticed the hosts heading in direction of a lead of 300 runs.

Promoted

Root made 228 and 186 in two separate Checks in opposition to Sri Lanka in Galle in January earlier than compiling a masterful 218 in opposition to India in Chennai the next month.

And with two extra matches to return within the ongoing India sequence, and with three Ashes encounters in Australia scheduled earlier than the top of 2021, England captain Root might but break the all-time file of 9 Take a look at a whole lot in a calendar 12 months set by Pakistan’s Mohammed Yousuf in 2006.