Joe Root becomes Third highest scorer in test cricket
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Joe Root moved to second in the all-time top run scorer charts to help England surpass India's first innings total on day three of the fourth test at Old Trafford, the hosts 433-4 at tea on Friday, leading by 75 runs.
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England travel to Australia for The Ashes having deployed a more pragmatic approach in their summer series against India
Joe Root went past Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and Ricky Ponting all in one innings and is now only behind Sachin Tendulkar on the list of batters with most runs in the history of Test cricket.
Root resumed his innings on 11 on the third morning and overtook Rahul Dravid when he reached 30 with a dab to deep third. He went past Jacques Kallis off his very next ball with a single through cover, and surpassed Ricky Ponting when he steered Anshul Kamboj to deep point for a single to reach 120.
He was the golden boy of South African cricket. Captain of the national team. But behind the clean-cut image, something darker was
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Rahul, who had looked more secure than Jaiswal, nevertheless departed before him, caught by Zak Crawley at slip. Instead, Jaiswal was the opener who made the half-century, passing 1,000 Test runs against England in the process. Joe Root has the record number of runs between these countries but Jaiswal looks the young pretender.
During a tense passage of play on Day 3 of the fourth Test between India and England at Old Trafford, an unfortunate moment saw England’s Ben Stokes in visible agony after being struck in the groin area by a sharp delivery from Mohammed Siraj. The incident occurred in the 91st over of England’s first innings and briefly brought play to a halt.
Should artificial lighting at the ground not work, rules on natural lighting and weather will apply. For day/night Test matches, the home cricket board will decide the latest times at which the floodlights are to be switched on prior to the start of a day's play, and must inform the match referee.