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Joe Root

Full Name
Joseph Edward Root
Born
30-12-1990 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Current Age
28 years old
Major Teams
Yorkshire, England
Batting Style
Right-hand bat
Bowling Style
Off-break
Joe Root

Photos: Joe Root

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    Day in Pictures: India vs England, 2nd Test, Lord’s, Day 4

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    In Pictures: England vs India, 3rd ODI

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    Photos: Pakistan vs England, 2nd Test, Players to watch out for

  • ICC Champions Trophy 2017, Match 1: ENG vs BAN at The Oval

    ICC Champions Trophy 2017, Match 1: ENG vs BAN at The Oval

Videos: Joe Root

  • Watch: Alastair Cook, Joe Root grind India to set 464-run target

    Watch: Alastair Cook, Joe Root grind India to set 464-run target

  • WATCH: England clinch series with 60-run win over India in Southampton

    WATCH: England clinch series with 60-run win over India in Southampton

  • VIDEO: India vs England, 1st Test, Edgbaston, Day 1 highlights

    VIDEO: India vs England, 1st Test, Edgbaston, Day 1 highlights

  • India vs England: Virat Kohli celebrates Joe Root’s dismissal with mic-drop gesture

    India vs England: Virat Kohli celebrates Joe Root’s dismissal with mic-drop gesture

Joe Root Biography

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.
 
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Joe Root Batting & Fielding Averages

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

Joe Root Bowling Averages

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

Joe Root Career statistics

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

News ON Joe Root

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Chasing 372, the home team was bowled out for 200 in 43.5 overs.

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Cricket West Indies chief executive Colin Graves has fully backed the International Cricket Council's zero tolerance attitude regarding ...

‘Do you like boys?’ – Shannon Gabriel reveals details in “unreserved apology”

West Indies bowler Shannon Gabriel has issued an "unreserved apology" following a four-ODI ban.

Shannon Gabriel suspended for the first four ODIs against England

West Indies player Shannon Gabriel has been suspended by the ICC for the first four ODIs of the upcoming five-match series against England

Joe Root, Mark Wood rise in ICC Test rankings

England captain Joe Root is back among the top-five batsmen in ICC Test rankings following a superb century in a match-winning cause ...

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Features ON Joe Root

    Year-ender 2018: England review – Resurgent in Tests, wonders with the white ball

    The Test team soared to No 2, the ODI men consolidated their No 1 ranking in a memorable 2018.

    Sri Lanka vs England: Joe Root’s team just the second ever to win 3-0 in Asia

    A clean sweep at the SSC on Monday has made Root the third captain after Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting to win a Test series in Asia 3-0.

    Sri Lanka vs England: Joe Root’s team dares to go where only once-mighty Australia have in Asia

    Only two touring non-Asian sides have ever swept a Test series in Asia - and they were both Australian.

    Where have all the quality No 3 batsmen in Tests gone?

    CricketCountry speaks to Dean Jones, Sanjay Manjrekar and Aakash Chopra while trying to assess the situation regarding Test one-downs.

    The score-line says 3-1, but how will you remember this series?

    How will you remember this series? Will it go down as one dominated by England, or one wherein India fought hard but fell short of the ...

    India vs England, Southampton Test: A week later, tables have turned and how!

    It says a lot about how the current series is balanced, when England have to look back four years and gain some semblance of confidence ...

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Joe Root GALLERY

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