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

Joe Root equalled the England report for many Check centuries in a calendar yr when he compiled his sixth hundred of 2021, towards India at Headingley on Thursday. Solely Denis Compton (1947) and Michael Vaughan (2002) have beforehand scored as many Check tons of in a calendar yr for England. Root accomplished his third hundred in as many matches on the second day of the third Check at his Yorkshire residence floor when he clipped Ishant Sharma by way of midwicket for a twelfth 4 in simply 124 balls confronted. He was finally out for 121 when he was bowled by Jasprit Bumrah.

This innings adopted his 109 within the rain-marred drawn first Check 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 Check hundred — solely Alastair Prepare dinner with 33 has made extra for England — noticed the hosts heading in direction of a lead of 300 runs.

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Root made 228 and 186 in two separate Assessments towards Sri Lanka in Galle in January earlier than compiling a masterful 218 towards 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 tip of 2021, England captain Root may but break the all-time report of 9 Check tons of in a calendar yr set by Pakistan’s Mohammed Yousuf in 2006.