{"id":1906,"date":"2021-01-25T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T07:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=88084"},"modified":"2021-01-25T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T07:37:03","slug":"joe-root-becomes-the-fourth-highest-run-scorer-for-england-in-test-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/joe-root-becomes-the-fourth-highest-run-scorer-for-england-in-test-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Root becomes the fourth-highest run-scorer for England in Test cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday England captain Joe root became the fourth-highest run-scorer for England. In the ongoing Test against Sri Lanka at Galle International stadium, Root continued his golden patch in one innings while playing in his 99<sup>th<\/sup> test for England.<\/p>\n<p>In test for England, Root is now behind Alec Stewart, Graham Gooch and former player Alastair Cook after scoring 8,238 test runs in 180 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Root\u2019s knock of 186 helped England to stick in the game on day three of the second test against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Jos Buttler, wicketkeeper-batsman appreciated Root for his \u201cmasterclass\u201d knock.<\/p>\n<p>On day three in a virtual press conference shared by ECB Buttler said, \u201cYeah, quite an amazing innings by Root, to back up his double hundred in the first test with 186-runs, physical and mental both application was there to be seen.\u201d He also added that, \u201cIt has been a masterclass on batting against spin, also it has been an education for all of us, we thoroughly enjoyed the match.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday England captain Joe root became the fourth-highest run-scorer for England. In the ongoing Test against Sri Lanka at\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":25005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[350,1005],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-joe-root","tag-test-series"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}