Former Test captain and middle-order batsman of the England cricket team, Joe Root scored a century for his team in the first test match against New Zealand.

This was the 26th century of Joe Root’s Test career as well as he completed his 10,000 runs in Test cricket.

Root became the 14th batsman in the world to score ten thousand runs in Test, while he became the second batsman from England to complete ten thousand runs in Test cricket.

The first ten thousand runs in Test cricket from England were touched by Alastair Cook.

 England vs New Zealand 1st test match: Joe Root breaks Alastair Cook’s record.

Joe Root achieved the distinction of becoming the batsman to complete ten thousand runs in Test cricket in the shortest innings for England. Earlier this record was recorded in the name of Cook.

Cook had completed his 10,000 runs in 229 innings, while Root did this feat in the 218th Test innings and left Cook behind. Joe Root completed his 10,000 runs in the 118th Test match of his Test career.

Joe Root’s innings against New Zealand.

Joe Root, facing 157 balls in the second innings of this match against New Zealand, completed the 26th century of his Test career. During his century innings, he hit a total of 9 fours.

Ind vs SA: Ravi Shastri selected the playing XI for the first T20 match, Dinesh Karthik was not given a place in the team.

A five-match T20 series will be organized between India and South Africa from June 9.

The first match between the two countries will be played in Delhi, but before that, the former head coach of Team India Ravi Shastri has selected his best playing XI for the first T20 match.

For this T20 series, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Players like Shami have been rested.

Team India will also prepare for the T20 World Cup 2022 through this series and through this series such players will be searched who can fit into the Indian team’s plan for that important tournament.

While selecting the probable playing XI for the first T20 against South Africa, Shastri suggested that Ishan Kishan could be given a chance along with KL Rahul as an opener.

Shastri said that he will go with the players whom he wants to see first. KL Rahul and Rituraj Gaikwad will probably open.

I think he will probably give a break to Ishan Kishan who can bat at number three.

According to Shastri, if Kishan bats at number three, then Shreyas Iyer can bat at number four, Rishabh Pant at number five, and then Hardik Pandya at number six.

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Ahead of the first Test against Australia to be played in Rawalpindi from Friday, Pakistan’s team has suffered a setback.

Fast bowler Harris Rauf has been ruled out of the first Test after being found corona positive. Bowler Naseem Shah has been included as his replacement for Pakistan.

Rauf got a chance to debut in Test cricket for Pakistan, but due to Corona, he will have to wait for it for the time being. Rauf got this opportunity due to the absence of bowlers Hasan Ali and Faheem Ashraf.

Both these bowlers were injured during the PCL last week. Although Pakistan had called in Iftikhar Ahmed and Mohammad Wasim Jr in their place, they may be forced to give Naseem a chance.

Pak vs Aus: Rauf had cleared the corona test on his arrival in Islamabad on Monday afternoon.

But was found to be corona positive when a rapid antigen test was conducted on Tuesday.

Taking precautions after Rauf was positive, the entire team got the Covid test done once again but the good thing is that all came negative.

Rauf has currently been sent to isolation for 5 days. Once he comes negative, hopefully, he will be ready to play in the second Test.

Rauf was associated with the Pakistan team of late due to the PCL final. Along with Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Rizwan also joined the team late.

All these players were part of the final match of PCL. The Australian team is touring Pakistan since 1998.

The first match of the three-Test series starts in Rawalpindi on Friday. Considering the future of cricket in Pakistan, this tour of Australia is considered very important.

IPL 2022: Australian batsman called IPL the best league in the world, said – no comparison with Pakistan league

Australia’s team is currently on a tour of Pakistan where it has to play in Test, ODI, and T20 matches. Australia is touring Pakistan for almost two decades.

Here the team will play against Pakistan in three Tests, three ODIs, and only one T20 match. The tour will begin with a Test match to be played in Rawalpindi from March 4.

Australian batsman Usman Khawaja has praised the Indian Premier League. He said that IPL is the best league in the world.

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England cricket team captain Joe Root scored 24 runs in the second innings of the second (Day-Night) Test match of the Ashes 2021-22.

At the same time, he scored 62 runs for his team in the first innings.

After his innings of 24 runs in the second innings, he came at number one in the list of captains who scored the most runs in Test cricket for England.

Joe Root breaks Alastair Cook’s record.

Joe Root has now become the leading run-scorer for England in Test cricket. Joe Root has so far scored 4859 runs for England as Test captain and he has overtaken Alastair Cook.

Cook had scored 4844 runs for England as a Test captain and now he has come at number two.

At the same time, Mike Atherton is at number three with 3815 runs in this list while Graham Gooch is at number four and he scored 3582 runs.

Top four captains who scored the most runs in Test cricket for England.

4859 Run – Joe Root.

4844 runs – Aleister Cook.

3815 runs – Mike Atherton.

3582 runs – Graham Gooch.

Joe Root’s new record for World Test Championship.

Joe Root is the only player who has scored 2000 runs in the World Test Championship and also has 20 wickets to his name.

Joe Root is the second Test captain to score the most runs in a calendar year.

Joe Root has scored 1630 runs as Test captain so far in the year 2021 and he is second in terms of scoring the most runs in a calendar year.

The record for the most runs as a Test captain in a calendar year is held by Graeme Smith, who scored a total of 1656 runs in 2008. Joe Root has come close to breaking his record.

Test captain with highest run-scorer in a calendar year-

1656 runs – Graeme Smith – 2008.

1630 Runs – Joe Root – 2021.

1595 runs – Michael Clarke – 2012.

1544 runs – Ricky Ponting – 2005.

1381 runs – Bal Simpson – 1964.

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In world cricket, Bradman is the only batsman to average above 99. No other batsman has been able to get around it till now. Bradman has another record that he made in 1931. Today is the 112th birthday of Sir Don Bradman, the greatest batsman in cricket history. Today, we are telling you about such a record of this veteran, which is far from done, it is impossible to think in today’s format.

The former Australian veteran completed his century in just three overs, playing an explosive innings in 1931. Why, have come to study or not, but this is true. In 1931, Bradman showed this feat against the Lithgow team while playing for the team of Blackheath XI. In this innings, a total of 14 sixes were struck off Bradman’s bat. There were 29 fours in the innings. Bradman scored 256 runs in this match.

How would he had completed, century in three overs

Now you must be thinking how can someone score a century from three overs i.e. 18 balls. So let me tell you that according to ICC rules, 6 balls are bowled in an over, but earlier eight balls were bowled in an over.

Bradman scored a century on 22 balls

Bradman played 24 balls during his century innings, ie three overs. The batsman had scored 33 runs in the first over, 40 in the second and 27 runs in the third over.

How expensive bowlers were

Bradman had 3 sixes and three fours while scoring the first over (6,6,4,2,4,4,6,1), scoring 33 runs. The second over was also almost the same, with four sixes and four fours coming off Bradman’s bat in 40 (6,4,4,6,6,4,6,4). The third side was also expensive and scored 29 runs in it. In this over, he (1,6,6,1,1,4,4,6) hit three sixes and two fours.

Bradman’s amazing test record

Bradman, who played a total of 52 Test matches for Australia, scored 6996 runs in 80 innings at an extraordinary average of 99.94. Bradman has 29 centuries and 13 half-centuries to his name. During this, he scored two triple centuries. He was the first cricketer in the world to do so. Former Indian opener Virender Sehwag came close to breaking this record of Bradman in 2009. He missed just 7 runs to score his third triple century against Sri Lanka.

Record of most double centuries

Bradman holds the record for making the most double centuries in a name test. He has scored over 200 runs in total 12 times. Second in this list comes the name of Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara, who has 11 double centuries in his name.

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History was created in the first match of the Test series, which is a world record to date. The host Sri Lankan team had the highest score in an innings of a Test match against India in the first match of the series.

Although the result of that match was a draw, the world record is still remembered today. In fact, the first match of the two-match Test series began on 2 August 1997 between the Indian team captained by Sachin Tendulkar and Sri Lanka.

In the match played at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, winning the toss and batting first, the Indian team, batting 167.3 overs, scored 537 runs at the loss of 8 wickets and declared the innings. In the last session of the second day of the match, India invited Sri Lanka to bat.

For India, captain Sachin Tendulkar scored 143 runs, Mohammad Azharuddin scored 126 runs and Navjot Sidhu’s 111 runs in this match for India. Rahul Dravid also hit a half-century.

It was believed that the Indian team would have a heavy upper hand in this match, but it did not happen. The Sri Lankan team had a score of over 500 runs in front. In such a situation, Sanath Jayasuriya and Marvan Atapattu went on to open, but Attapattu was dismissed by 26 runs.

Sri Lanka got the first blow on the score of just 39 runs. In such a situation, the Indian team must have gained confidence, but after this Jayasuriya and Roshan Mahanama carried forward the Sri Lankan innings.

Both shared a half-century, then a century and then a 200-run partnership. Meanwhile, Jayasuriya completed his century and after a while, Mahanama also completed his century. After this, there was a continuous partnership between the two, and the Sri Lankan team beat India’s score.

The Sri Lankan team’s score was over 600 runs. At this time, Roshan Mahanama was dismissed by 225 runs. The team’s score at this time was 615 runs. Thus, a total of 576 runs were shared between the two.

After Mahanama’s dismissal, Sanath Jayasuriya was also dismissed on this score. Jayasuriya scored 340 runs in this match. After his dismissal, Arvinda DeSilva partnered first with captain Arjun Ranatunga and then Mahela Jayawardene.

The Sri Lankan team played a total of 271 overs in this match and scored 952 runs, losing 6 wickets before announcing the innings on 6 August 1997, which is a world record to date.

So far no team has scored such a big score in an innings of a Test match. However, earlier in the year 1932, England team had scored 903 runs against Australia, but for the first time in Test cricket, a team scored more than 950.

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