Root broke Tendulkar-Ponting’s record in Hyderabad Test. Root breaks leftist-Ponting’s record in Bengaluru Test: Top scorer of India-England series; Also scored the highest number of test runs against India
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India had to face a 28-run defeat against England in the first test. Team India, which was chasing a strong score of 231 runs on Sunday, was all out for 202 runs in the second innings. England scored 420 runs in their second innings on the strength of Ollie Pope (196 runs) and took a lead of 230 runs.
Earlier, India scored 436 runs in the first innings and England scored 190 runs. During this exciting adventure, some records were made and some interesting facts also came to light. Joe Root has become the top scorer of the India-England Test series in Hyderabad Test. He broke Ricky Ponting’s record of scoring the highest Test runs for India.
Root became the top scorer of India-England series
England’s Joe Root scored 29 runs in the first innings and scored only 2 runs in the second innings. By blocking the 10th run in the first innings, Root overtook Sachin’s record. Became the highest run scorer in the England-India Test series. His name reached 2557 runs against India. Sachin has scored 2535 test runs against England.
Ponting became the top scorer in the test against India, last
Joe Root has become the batsman who has scored the most Test runs against India. He left behind former Australian captain Ricky Ponting. Root made Ponting’s record by scoring 2 runs in the second innings. Root has scored 2557 and Ponting has scored 2555 test runs. This many runs were scored in 25 matches, whereas Ponting had scored this many runs in 29 matches.
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Ashwin completes 150 wickets in WTC
Ravichandran Ashwin has taken 154 wickets in the World Test Championship (WTC). He is third in the list of top wicket takers of the tournament. Australia’s spinner Nathan Lyon (174 wickets) and fast bowler Pat Cummins (169) are jointly in first place. Ashwin has played 31 matches, Cummins has played 40 and Lyon has played 41 matches.
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550 wickets in international cricket
553 wickets have been taken in international cricket. He has taken 280 wickets in Tests, an impressive 220 wickets and 53 wickets in T-20. He is the 7th Indian agent to reach this place. Before him, Anil Kumble (953 wickets), Ravichandran Ashwin (720 wickets), Harbhajan Singh (707 wickets), Kapil Dev (687 wickets), Zaheer Khan (597 wickets) and Javagal Srinath (551 wickets) have achieved this feat.
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KL Rahul’s one thousand runs on Indian pitches
Rahul has scored one thousand test runs on Indian pitches. He made this record of six talks against Rehan Ahmed. Rahul played an inning of 86 runs in the first innings.
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