Root’s century got here on the third day of the match when he skillfully reduce a supply from Lahiru Kumara, registering his 10th boundary off 111 deliveries.This achievement was notably important because it got here in Root’s 145th Check match, whereas Cook dinner had performed 161 Assessments to succeed in his tally of 33 centuries, AFP reported.
Earlier within the match, Root had scored 143 runs within the first innings, equaling Cook dinner’s file. Along with his second century of the sport, Root not solely broke the file but in addition solidified his place as probably the most prolific batsmen in England’s Check cricket historical past.
Root’s seventh Check century at Lord’s secured him the file for essentially the most Check a whole bunch on the ‘Residence of Cricket,’ surpassing the England duo of Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan, who every had six.
In doing so, Root grew to become solely the fourth batsman to attain centuries in each innings of a Check at Lord’s, becoming a member of West Indies legend George Headley (1939), Gooch (1990), and Vaughan (2004).
Gooch’s exceptional whole of 456 runs in opposition to India at Lord’s in 1990, with innings of 333 and 123, stays the file for the very best combination by a single batsman in any Check match.
Root’s newest hundred additionally elevated him to joint-sixth on the all-time checklist of Check century-makers, a rating led by India’s Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 51 centuries in 200 Assessments from 1989 to 2013.
At 33, Root is the one energetic participant among the many prime century-makers in Check cricket historical past.
Most Check a whole bunch (variety of a whole bunch, matches, participant, workforce (s), span):
51 200 Sachin Tendulkar IND 1989-2013
45 166 Jacques Kallis RSA 1995-2013
41 168 Ricky Ponting AUS 1995-2012
38 134 Kumar Sangakkara SRI 2000-2015
36 164 Rahul Dravid IND/ICC 1996-2012
34 118 Younis Khan PAK 2000-2017
34 125 Sunil Gavaskar IND 1971-1987
34 131 Brian Lara WIS/ICC 1990-2006
34 149 Mahela Jayawardene SRI 1997-2014
34 145 Joe Root ENG 2012 –
33 161 Alastair Cook dinner ENG 2006-2018
A whole lot in each innings of a Check at Lord’s (scores, participant, workforce, opposition, 12 months):
106 and 107 George Headley WIS v ENG 1939
333 and 123 Graham Gooch ENG v IND 1990
103 and 101 no Michael Vaughan ENG v WIS 2004
143 and 103 Joe Root ENG v SRI 2024