Joe Root scoring runs for fun was the norm not too long ago. While England's Test fortunes were on the downswing, the 33-year-old hit an enviable purple patch, slamming six hundreds in 2020 and five in 2021. By that meteoric benchmark, the last two years haven't quite gone to plan. He was still scoring runs but not the big runs that we had seen in 2020-21. The lull in the ongoing series
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England needed the old-fashioned method of Test match batting to bail them out and fortunately for them, their best man for the mission was out there © BCCI