Ashes 2023, England vs Australia: Former England captain Joe Root scored a brilliant century in the first Test of Ashes 2023. This is the 30th century of his Test career. Root has been able to play a century against Australia after almost 8 years. In the Edgbaston Test match, Root’s bat saw an unbeaten inning of 118 runs in 157 balls, in which he hit 4 sixes and 7 fours. With this, Root has now come very close to number one Steve Smith in the list of current Fab 4 batsmen to score a century.
Steve Smith is currently running at the first place in the list of Fab 4 in terms of scoring Test centuries. Smith has 31 Test centuries in his name, while Joe Root has 30 centuries. Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli are at the third and fourth places in this list. Both the batsmen have 28-28 Test hundreds.
England declared their first innings on the very first day of the game on the basis of Joe Root’s 30th Test century, scoring 393 runs at the loss of 8 wickets. At the same time, the Australian team had scored 14 runs without any loss at the end of the day’s play. In the first innings for England, Jack Crawley and Johnny Bairstow saw quick half-century innings with the bat.
Root is second in terms of hundreds among active players
Due to his 30th Test century, Joe Root has now reached the second position in terms of scoring most international centuries in the list of active players. In the name of Joe Root, 46 centuries have now been registered. In this case, Virat Kohli occupies the first place with 75 international centuries. Australian opening batsman David Warner is at number three in this list with 45 centuries.
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