Root, from 148 Test matches and 270 innings has scored 12716 ... but the hosts made a great comeback to level the series.

Joe Root registered his 31st Test ton as he dragged England out from ... session entirely on their own - the first time in the series where England batted through without losing a wicket - as ...

Short of runs and at the centre of a debate around his approach to batting, Root played a classical Test innings to keep the tourists in the series. In a breathless morning, England were reduced ...

Root is likely to come face-to-face with Bumrah next summer when India tour England for a five-match Test series. And Vaughan added: “There is no obvious way to get him out, against pace or spin.

“I’ve never seen that hunger, determination or relentlessness in anyone’s batting really,” Cook said of Root. “He does that in an elegant way.” Ben Stokes, the England test captain who is sitting out ...