Fans of England cricket captain Joe Root had been hoping he would have a decent first game against India in Chennai to mark his 100th Test match. And he didn’t disappoint, hitting a superb 218 in the opening innings, leading to an unexpected 227-run victory over a confident Indian side fresh from victory over Australia.
It was his third successive century in Tests, having come from a two-match series in Sri Lanka where he scored 228 in the first and followed it up with 186, the first England player to score more than 150 in consecutive Tests. He appears to be in the form of his life and it is a pity there are no spectators to witness it.
We will forgive him his relatively modest 40 off just 32 balls in the second innings as England appeared to be in pursuit of quick runs.
Root’s captaincy briefly came under fire from pundits for not declaring, but it proved to be…
