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After a good performance for England Under-19s, Joe Root was somewhat unfairly thrown to the lions on a slow turner against India at Nagpur during the 2012-13 tour, but he made an impact with a solid 229-ball 73 — still the sixth-longest Test innings by an Englishman — and has never looked back ever since.
Promoted to open batting in the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge in 2013, Root slammed a mammoth 180 against Australia at Lord’s. The Yorkshire cricketer is that perfect blend of dour fighting attitude and relentless stamina (that has resulted in Yorkshire producing world-class openers over decades) and gorgeous drives, especially on the rise off the front foot.
Despite going through a rough patch in 2012, he fought back with 222 against Hampshire, was named Cricket Writer’s Young Player of the Year the next season, and scored a dogged 87 at Adelaide — one of the few face-saving performances for England in the embarrassing whitewash of the 2013-14 Ashes.
Back home, Root announced his comeback by scoring his first double-hundred, an unbeaten 200 against Sri Lanka at Lord’s. His strokeplay has earned him fast runs in the shorter versions of the sport, especially during his famous unbeaten 49-ball 90 in a T20I against Australia at Rose Bowl in 2009.
As an aftermath of the 2015 World Cup nightmare, the selectors decided to draft in limited-overs specialists for both ODIs and T20Is. Root was one of the few who was retained across formats. He continued to perform brilliantly across formats, but seldom better than in the 2016 World T20 final — where he scored a 36-ball 54 and took 2 wickets with his first 3 balls — only to see England lose the match.
Root was one of the few Englishmen to return from the India tour of 2016-17 with his reputation unscathed. He scored 491 runs from 5 Tests, crossing fifty at least once in every Test.
When Alastair Cook stepped down from Test captaincy after the series, Root was named his replacement.
Abhishek Mukherjee
Career | M | In | R | NO | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
Test | 66 | 121 | 5752 | 12 | 254 | 52.77 | 10360 | 55.52 | 13 | 38 | 660 | 16 | 77 | 0 |
ODIs | 107 | 101 | 4451 | 14 | 133* | 51.16 | 5122 | 86.89 | 11 | 27 | 352 | 37 | 50 | 0 |
T20s | 25 | 23 | 743 | 4 | 90* | 39.10 | 577 | 128.7 | 0 | 4 | 76 | 16 | 14 | 0 |
World Cup | 6 | 5 | 202 | 0 | 121 | 40.40 | 240 | 84.16 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
Career | M | B | R | W | Avg | EC | SR | 5WI | 10WM | BBI | BBM |
Test | 66 | 1646 | 830 | 18 | 46.11 | 3.025 | 91. | 0 | 0 | 2/9 | 2/9 |
ODIs | 107 | 1204 | 1151 | 20 | 57.55 | 5.735 | 60.20 | 0 | 0 | 2/9 | 2/9 |
T20s | 25 | 84 | 139 | 6 | 23.16 | 9.928 | 14.00 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 1/0 |
World Cup | 6 | 54 | 56 | 1 | 56.00 | 6.222 | 54.00 | 0 | -- | 2/9 |
Test Debut
India v England at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, December 13, 2012
Last Test
New Zealand v England at Eden Park, Auckland, March 22, 2018
ODI Debut
India v England at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot, January 11, 2013
Last ODI
New Zealand v England at Hagley Oval, Christchurch, March 10, 2018
T20 Debut
India v England at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, December 22, 2012
Last T20
England v West Indies at Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street, September 16, 2017
Chasing 372, the home team was bowled out for 200 in 43.5 overs.
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New Zealand vs Bangladesh - 3rd ODI
BAN 242 OVERS: 47.2
NZ 330/6 (50.0 Ovs)
New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 88 runs
West Indies vs England - 1st ODI
West Indies
Match begins at 20:30 IST (15:00 GMT)
South Africa vs Sri Lanka - 2nd Test
21 Feb, 2019 13:30 IST
St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Afghanistan vs Ireland - 1st T20I
21 Feb, 2019 18:30 IST
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Dehradun
South Africa vs Sri Lanka - 2nd Test
21 Feb, 2019 13:30 IST | 08:00 GMT
St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Afghanistan vs Ireland - 1st T20I
21 Feb, 2019 18:30 IST | 13:00 GMT
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Dehradun
West Indies vs England - 2nd ODI
22 Feb, 2019 20:30 IST | 15:00 GMT
Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados
Afghanistan vs Ireland - 2nd T20I
23 Feb, 2019 18:30 IST | 13:00 GMT
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Dehradun
Afghanistan vs Ireland - 3rd T20I
24 Feb, 2019 18:30 IST | 13:00 GMT
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Dehradun
South Africa vs Sri Lanka - 1st Test
Sri Lanka beat South Africa by 1 wicket
New Zealand vs Bangladesh - 2nd ODI
New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 8 wickets
New Zealand vs Bangladesh - 1st ODI
New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 8 wickets
West Indies vs England - 3rd Test
England beat West Indies by 232 runs
India vs New Zealand - 3rd T20I
New Zealand beat India by 4 runs