Root has flourished after giving up the Test captaincy and smashed 24 centuries, the most by any batter in the world. From 2021 to 2025, Root has scored 5954 runs, with 23 centuries and 17 fifties.

Joe Root has delivered in Australia. The final frontier for Root, in many ways, has finally been conquered. While many will say that it came a tad too late for England with the series lost, the truth ...

41 - Centuries for Joe Root in Test cricket. He is now joint-third in the list of top century-makers in Tests alongside Ricky Ponting, and is only behind Sachin Tendulkar (51) and Jacques Kallis (45).

England veteran batter Joe Root became the joint-third highest with the most Test hundreds in international cricket, according to the International Cricket Council (ICC). The right-handed batter ...

It was, arguably, the trickiest bit of Joe Root's Monday in Sydney. He went through his usual routines, cameras fixed on his every tick. Cheeks ruddy, he puffed them out once more, took a deep breath, ...

Master batsman Joe Root scored his second century of the Ashes series Monday to move to 41 overall and draw level in third place with Australian great Ricky Ponting on the all-time list. The prolific ...

SYDNEY — SYDNEY (AP) — Joe Root's second century of the series kept an Australian rally in check at lunch on Day 2 of the fifth and final Ashes test on Monday. Root's masterful, unbeaten 138 was the ...

24 - Test centuries by Root since the start of 2021. No other batter has scored more than ten hundreds in this period. Harry Brook, Kane Williamson, Steven Smith and Shubman Gill are tied second with ...

SYDNEY (AP) — Joe Root posted his second hundred of the series for England and Travis Head closed in on his third for Australia as Day 2 of the final Ashes test closed evenly poised on Monday. England ...

Sydney (AFP) – Joe Root said he would love to return for another Ashes tour of Australia after his superb 160 in the fifth Test on Monday, with the English veteran showing few signs of slowing down.

JOE ROOT scored his 41st Test century but England endured another dismal day in the Ashes. Apart from Root’s excellence, there were yet more sloppy shots by England’s batsmen and then the bowlers were ...

SYDNEY, ‌Jan 5 : England were dismissed for 384 in their first innings to bring up tea on the second day of the fifth Ashes test at Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday. * Joe Root hit his second century ...