England’s star batsman joe root broke another record on the red ball. joe root he became only the second England batsman to score 11,000 Test runs after the former captain and Sir Alastair Cook.
Earlier, on Day 1, England had opted to bowl first and they bowled out Ireland with 172 runs. In the absence of James Anderson (*injured), veteran speedster Stuart Broad took a brilliant 5-wicket haul and was giving batsmen space.
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Not a single batsman from Ireland scored 40 runs and it would not be wrong to say that the batsmen lacked intent and were in a hurry to play a type of attacking cricket which did not help the team much.
England got off to a bright start and the pairing of Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett got the team off to a fun start as they were involved in a partnership of 109 runs in 16.3 overs. There was carnage at the iconic “Lord’s”.
Joe Root becomes fourth slowest in 11,000 test runs
Before the game against Ireland, modern day big batsman Joe Root needed 52 runs to achieve the feat of 11,000 runs in the game’s purest format.
He played the ‘Bazball’ brand of cricket and crushed 56 runs off 59 balls, with 4 fours and 1 sixes, to achieve the massive milestone. He became the second Englishman after Cook and the 11th player to achieve the milestone. Notably, Joe Root took 238 innings to complete 11,000 Test runs and is the fourth slowest among 11 batsmen to achieve the feat.
Entries taken to reach 11000 Test races:
Kumar Sangakkara-208
Brian Lara – 213
Ricky Ponting – 222
Sachin Tendulkar – 223
Raul Dravid – 234
Jacques Kallis – 234
Mahela Jayawardene – 237
Joe Root – 238
Cook Alastair – 252
Shivnarine Chanderpaul – 256
Border Allan – 259