{"id":2069,"date":"2021-02-06T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=92047"},"modified":"2021-02-06T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T09:18:14","slug":"ind-vs-eng-joe-root-hits-double-ton-in-his-100th-test-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-eng-joe-root-hits-double-ton-in-his-100th-test-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Ind vs Eng: Joe Root hits double ton in his 100th Test match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An extraordinary innings from an extraordinary guy in his 100th Test match. Joe Root became the first player to score a double-hundred in his 100th Test. As he stood at the crease like a root for England\u2019s batting line up and helped to stem England\u2019s first innings after the tourists lost two wickets early on day one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 30-year-old scored a double hundred in his 98th match, a ton in 99th game and resumed the form in Chennai and stood up to the expectations and clubbed another double ton. This is his fifty double ton. England\u2019s skipper smashed a century on Day one at Ma Chidambaram Stadium.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opener Dom Sibley and all-rounder Ben Stokes scored half-centuries and piled on runs while keeping the hosts under pressure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Playing his 100th Test in Chennai, incidentally the Yorkshire lad made his Test debut in 2012 in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At tea, Root is unbeaten on 209 with Ollie Pope at the crease.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extraordinary innings from an extraordinary guy in his 100th Test match. Joe Root became the first player to score\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":25167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1138,350],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ecb","tag-joe-root"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","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\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}