Joe Root

That was the number of runs Joe Root needed at Lord's on Sunday to rubberstamp a 26th Test hundred - and first in the fourth innings - as well as 10,000 career ...

As long as I have the energy and drive, I will keep doing it. As soon as I made the decision [to step down] I knew it was the right thing to do. it's one of the great sporting achievements." That's a great motivator for me moving forward. "But it's never enjoyable when you are losing Test matches, you would give up all those runs to win. They duly came, too, with Root fittingly there at the end, unbeaten on 115 having struck the match-securing boundary.

Joe Root said he was motivated to do 'amazing things' as he completed his century to help England see off New Zealand in the first Test at Lord's.

Root, who stepped down as England Test captain in April, scored a gritty century and remained unbeaten on 115 to set up a five-wicket victory for his side.

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Current and former players alike were quick to take to social media to praise England batter Joe Root after he became the 14th player to reach 10000 runs in ...

@root66is the greatest all round player England have EVER produced not even a discussion IMO has time against pace, spin don’t ever get me started he is #differentgravy360 player 👏🏿👏🏿 June 5, 2022 Welcome to the club, champ 🤝— Younus Khan (@YounusK75) @root66 pic.twitter.com/eG8jtOBbZT June 5, 2022 An absolute pleasure to watch a historic moment by one of the greats. Congratulations— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) @root66joining the 10k club and what an amazing knock yesterday. Many congratulations to— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) @root66on an incredible 100 and on reaching 10000 Test runs, massive achievement. Said to— Danevn81 (@Danevn811) @kappie777that there is only 2 people that can guide @englandcrickethome is Joe Root and Ben Stokes... yes Ben was the obvious choice, what a guy and captain..

He is only the second Englishman to the landmark, following Sir Alastair Cook, and here the PA news agency looks at Root's record. Chasing Cook. England's ...

In addition to India, he averages over 50 against Sri Lanka (58.88), Pakistan (56.11), the West Indies (53.13) and South Africa (52.91). His efforts in the current New Zealand series mean he has now passed 1,000 runs against every opponent bar Bangladesh and Ireland, against whom he has played just two and one Tests respectively. The new regime has restored Root to the number four position where he has scored over half of his Test runs, a record that now stands at 5,305.

Joe Root produced magic with his bat to take England to victory in the opening Test but a video has emerged of the Englishman standing at the non-striker's ...

Cook had reached the landmark in his 229th innings. He reached the 10,000-run mark in his 218th innings, becoming the fastest England batter to do so. While the former England captain's stunning achievement received widespread praise, it was a freaky video of Root standing at the non-striker's end that has gone viral.

Joe Root steered England to a brilliant victory over New Zealand in the first Test at Lord's, reaching an important milestone in the process.

Root, meanwhile, was overcome with emotion after the match, telling the BBC: "It's a nice feeling. He has looked the part ever since his debut in India in 2012." And he delivered just that with a stunning 26th Test century that ensured England won the match.

Root led the Test side for a record 64 matches over a five-year period before walking away over Easter.

“I’m proud of the way I did the role. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “It started to really take a bad toll on my own personal health.

The former captain can now concentrate on his batting and he produced the most enjoyable of his 26 centuries for England.

He said it felt like one of the best he had ever played, but he is batting so very well that he is acutely aware of even the tiniest mistakes, so he dwelled on the one imperfection, when he cut the ball past his own stumps on 92. “I think I was unaware of how much it was grabbing a hold of me, as soon as I made the decision to step down I knew it was the right thing to do. Root did say that it was perhaps the most enjoyable of his 26 centuries. “It’s been a long time for this team.” Nine months and eight days, to be exact, a run of nine Tests spread over three series in England, Australia and the West Indies. You guess he would happily give away some of those runs in exchange for a few more wins. He says it had become an “unhealthy relationship”, that it was affecting his fitness and dragging him, and his family, down. He says he had found it increasingly hard to sleep in the last few months of his captaincy, the cares he had gone to bed with the previous evening burst back in on him as soon as he was awake again – bowling changes, field placings, form, fitness, media commitments.

Composure in midst of deep gloom. As with the latter months of his captaincy, so too with his new beginnings back in the ranks.

Everything he is doing - for England in the first instance and for his legacy thereafter - is just too up-close-and-personal for a fair appraisal, but the manner in which Root has turned on the afterburners, almost from the moment of his 30th birthday in December 2020, has been legacy-defining. In time, the granular details of Root's batting achievements will begin to hold a greater sway in the imagination, even if for now, all we can do is laud the landmarks as they come. "It was very special to get the hundred and reach 10,000 runs, I can't pretend it wasn't, but nothing replicates winning games of cricket. And in the midst of it all, lest we forget, he happened to tick off that 10,000-run mark. Had Kane Williamson been allowed to choose the manner in which England went about their victory push, he would surely have traded a few swings for the stands for the high probability of a crucial miscalibration - such as that which tipped Ben Stokes from the contest on the third afternoon. His first delivery of the day was dinked off the pads behind square - the purity of his angles against an arrow-straight sighter from Tim Southee rendering the stroke as riskless as a dead-batted prod back down the pitch.

JOE ROOT left England fans with jaws on the floor in the First Test win over New Zealand.. and not for his match-winning century.The hosts ended their.

What is this sorcery?" "His consistency is incredible... A second said: "He has shaved off the bottom of his bat so it is flat. After Root's heroics, Cook claimed: "He is a pleasure to watch, the most complete England batsman I have seen. A third joked: "His bat is New Balance, that's how." One added: "He's magic."

Root says 'a weight has been lifted' without the captaincy as he celebrates his match-winning century against New Zealand.

I made sure I stuck to my guns and looked to be positive in the way I wanted the bowlers to bowl and the fields I set.” “I think I was unaware of how much it [the captaincy] was grabbing hold of me, and I just needed to make the decision. It wasn’t fair on my family, on people close to me, and it wasn’t fair on myself either.