{"id":3825,"date":"2022-06-06T16:42:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T11:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=227028"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T11:12:51","slug":"is-joe-root-even-more-of-a-magician-netizens-are-stunned-by-former-captains-bat-balancing-sorcery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/is-joe-root-even-more-of-a-magician-netizens-are-stunned-by-former-captains-bat-balancing-sorcery\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIs Joe Root even more of a magician\u201d \u2013 netizens are stunned by former captain\u2019s bat balancing \u2018Sorcery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remarkable performance of former England captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Joe+root\">Joe Root<\/a> made headlines, but it wasn\u2019t just that fact that caught viewers\u2019 attention. A weird video of Joe Root standing at the non-striker\u2019s end of the field, where Root\u2019s bat appeared to really be standing by itself, went viral on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Root\u2019s batting brilliance helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Eng+vs+nz\">England beat New Zealand<\/a> in the first Test at Lord\u2019s. With a match-winning century against New Zealand, the 31-year-old batsman became just England\u2019s second batsman to surpass 10,000 Test runs.<\/p>\n<p>In the first Test against New Zealand at Lord\u2019s on Sunday, Joe Root hit his 26th Test hundred to help England win. Root embarked up a 90-run partnership with Ben Stokes and then a 120-run stand with Ben Foakes to take England to a 5-wicket triumph after they were 69\/4 in their chase of 277 at one stage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I thought <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newbalance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@newbalance<\/a> is just the company name.<br \/>Just Watch Root's Bat at Non-striker end. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JoeRoot?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JoeRoot<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENGvsNZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ENGvsNZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/testcricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#testcricket<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/newbalance?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#newbalance<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pakvswi?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pakvswi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7lwp2LBTq9\">pic.twitter.com\/7lwp2LBTq9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Naveed \ud83c\udf49\ud83c\udf41 (@Naveed_YounasPK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Naveed_YounasPK\/status\/1533736936191426561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/webboone\/status\/1533429605813698560?s=21&t=XT8dM-mwf0RDFEdxLH50dA<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I knew <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/root66?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@root66<\/a> was talented but not as magic as this\u2026\u2026. What is this sorcery? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyCricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SkyCricket<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENGvNZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ENGvNZ<\/a> \ud83c\udfcf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yXdhlb1VcF\">pic.twitter.com\/yXdhlb1VcF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Joseph (@Ben_Howitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ben_Howitt\/status\/1533397526975496192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a match-winning century against New Zealand, the 31-year-old batsman became just England\u2019s second batsman to surpass 10,000 Test runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3332,350,1541,1005],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-eng-v-nz","tag-joe-root","tag-lords-cricket-ground","tag-test-series"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","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\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}