Joe Root Hit A Double Century Against India: Ind vs Eng
Joe Root hit a double century against India, created history for England: Ind vs Eng.
The first match of the four-match Test series under the ICC World Test Championship between hosts India and England is being played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Saturday 6 February is the second day of the match. The second day of play continues, with the visiting team holding on.
Playing ahead of 263/3, by the end of the tea on the second day, the England team has scored 454 runs losing 4 wickets in 147 overs. Captain Joe Root has returned unbeaten after scoring 209 runs and Ollie Pope by 24 runs.
England captain Joe Root did not reach India directly for the Test series against India, but before that, he played a two-match Test series in Sri Lanka.
In that Test series, he scored a double century and a century. After this, when he came to India, he already scored a double century in the Test match. With this, he has created history for the England team.
Indeed, Joe Root completed the fifth double century of his career in the Chennai Test match against India off 341 balls.
In this innings, he hit 19 fours and 2 sixes. Joe Root is the first England captain to score a double century in a Test match on Indian soil.
Not only this, he has become the only player in the world to score a double century in the 100th Test match. No player has done this feat before them.
Root never in such a form
Joe Root is counted in the Fave Four, but the way he has batted in India after Sri Lanka. He never had such a form. He has been in form, but he has never played such long innings continuously.
He scored 228 runs in the first innings of the first Test match against Sri Lanka, while in the first innings of the second match, he could score a double century, but was dismissed for 186 runs.
After this, when he came to India, he proved that this Test series will not be easy for India by scoring a double century in the first innings of the first Test match.
Root, who came to India after playing a double century and more than 180 runs in Sri Lanka, has scored a century. The visiting team will have high expectations from them.
