Joe Root And Harry Brook Score Double Hundred: England batters Joe Root and Harry Brook have scored double hundreds in the ongoing 1st Test match against Pakistan. The two men even crossed the 250-run mark in the second inning of the game.
The first of three Pakistan vs England Test matches is being played in the Multan Cricket Stadium. Played on a typical Pakistani flat track, the home team won the toss, decided to bat, and amassed a massive total of 556. Three of their batters scored a ton, those being Abdullah Shafique, Salman Ali Agha, and captain Shan Masood.
In response, the England Cricket Team did not get off to a good start as incumbent captain Ollie Pope was dismissed for a duck. But from this point, England took charge. The Three Lions lost their second wicket at the score of 113 and the third at 249. At some point before the third wicket, Joe Root crossed the 72-run mark, which made him the highest English run scorer in Test history.
Joe Root And Harry Brook Score Double Hundred
And while Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley made decent scores, it was Root and the incoming Harry Brook who would actually frustrate the bowlers. What would happen next would create history. Root and Brook would end up forming a whopping 454-run partnership, which is the highest fourth-wicket partnership in Test history, breaking.
This partnership broke Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh’s record of 449 runs for a fourth-wicket partnership, which the two Australians notched up in the December 2015 Test against the West Indies at Hobart.
In the midst of this partnership, Joe Root scored his sixth double-hundred in Test cricket. He then went on to cross the 250-run mark. But right before he could actually make his personal best Test score, he was dismissed for 262, his leg caught in front of the wickets by Salman Agha.
Root’s double-ton also makes him the Englishman with the most 200+ scores in Test cricket, going past Alastair Cook’s five.
But it is Harry Brook who has stolen the show in this match, as he has now scored his first triple-century in Test cricket. Going at almost a ball, this is the kind of attacking batting never seen in Test cricket, especially for this long.
This is the sixth triple hundred by an English batter and the first since Graham Gooch scored 333 runs in one inning against India at Lord’s in July 1990.
At the time of writing, England’s score is 779/5, as the team is clearly headed towards going past the 800-run mark. This is already the fifth-highest score in Test cricket and the highest this century. While a result to this match is almost impossible at this point as we are in the second session of Day Four, the England Cricket Team can look to break records, like going for the highest Test score ever, which currently is 952/6d, made by Sri Lanka against India in August 1997.
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