During the first day of the second Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s on Thursday, Joe Root reached a notable landmark when AFP came out with the news that he had equaled Alastair Cook’s England Record of 33 Test Centuries.
The superb batsman took 12 balls to get full runs, goes to his hundred when he cut Miller’s pacer Kuma Lahiru’s several feet in the air, skipping the back between slip and gully, made 162 pitches including 13 boundaries butt.
What makes the accomplishment of Joe Root even more amazing is that it is in his 145th contest as opposed to Cook who did this in 161 games. This achievement also sees the list of players with most Test centuries increasing New Zealand’s Kane Williamson or seventh in joint position.
Top of the pile is fellow Indian, Sachin Tendulkar who Additionally scored 51 hundred in 200 tests between the years 1989-2013.
The unique factor with Joe Root as opposed to the rest of the batsmen in that exclusive club is that, at the age of 33, he is the youngest one still playing Test cricket, all the rest of them are already out of this format aiming at the history books.
That emphasizes Joe Root’s marvelous skill in the game and how, should he desire to, he can enhance his status in the history of the game.
Here I have arranged the statistics in a chronological manner from the highest number of test match centuries to the lowest number in the last column given for our convenience: Here are the comprehensive stats and the rankings of the players.
Number of hundreds, matches, player, team(s), span:
51 200 Sachin Tendulkar IND 1989-2013
45 166 Jacques Kallis RSA 1995-2013
41 168 Ricky Ponting AUS 1995-2012
38 134 Kumar Sangakkara SRI 2000-2015
36 164 Rahul Dravid IND/ICC 1996-2012
34 118 Younis Khan PAK 2000-2017
34 125 Sunil Gavaskar IND 1971-1987
34 131 Brian Lara WIS/ICC 1990-2006
34 149 Mahela Jayawardene SRI 1997-2014
33 145 Joe Root ENG 2012 –
33 161 Alastair Cook ENG 2006-2018
