Joseph Edward Root, MBE is an English international bowler who was born on December 30, 1990. He plays for the English cricket team and used to be the captain of the Test team. People think he is one of the best batsmen in recent times. He also plays cricket for the county of Yorkshire in England. Root has scored the most runs of any active batter and is the eleventh-best run scorer in Test cricket history.
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Root played his first Test in 2012 and his first ODI in 2013. From 2012 to 2019, he was a member of the England Twenty20 International team. Between February 2017 and April 2022, he was the captain of England’s Test team. He holds the records for the most Test matches (64), wins (27), and losses (26) as an England leader.
Past History and Profession of Joe Root:
Root is Helen and Matt Root’s oldest son, and he grew up in Dore, Sheffield. Billy, who is younger than he is, plays cricket for the Glamorgan team. Root went to Dore Primary School and King Ecgbert School in Sheffield. When he was 15, he went to Worksop College as a weekly boarder on a cricket sports grant.
Root joined Sheffield Collegiate CC in Abbeydale Park, just like his father did. Michael Vaughan, who used to bat for Yorkshire and was captain of England, also played at Collegiate. He was an inspiration to Root, who became his protege. Root got “Player of the Tournament” at the Bunbury Festival, which is a big deal. Root likes the team Sheffield United, which plays association football.
Domestic career of Joe Root
Root’s first game with Yorkshire’s second team was on July 18, 2007, at Abbeydale Park. It was against Derbyshire. He got 57 runs, and he and Adam Lyth put up 133 runs for the first wicket. He kept playing for the academy team. When Yorkshire’s academy won the ProARCH Trophy in Abu Dhabi, he was named player of the event.
Root signed a three-year deal with Yorkshire after being named man of the series for the second time. This time, he did it while playing for England Under-19 in Bangladesh. Root was picked for the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. He scored 70 runs without getting out against Hong Kong, helping England beat Hong Kong and move on to the quarterfinals, where they lost to the West Indies and were knocked out of the tournament. Root was kept on by the Trent Rockets for the 2022 season of The Hundred in April of that year. In the IPL 2023 sale on December 23, 2022, Rajasthan Royals bought him.
International career of Joe Root
Root received his Test cap from Paul Collingwood in the fourth Test against India. He and Kevin Pietersen led the innings with 73 from 229 balls. In the second of a two-match series, Root made his T20 debut without batting. He joined the ODI team after Jonny Bairstow withdrew. Root captained the England Lions in a four-day warm-up match against the Black Caps in the summer of 2013. Joe became the first Yorkshire player to achieve a Test century at Headingley after getting 40 and 71 at Lord’s.
Root scored five against Australia at the 2015 World Cup. 46 (of England’s 123) against New Zealand, one against Scotland. He became the youngest English World Cup century scorer with 121 against Sri Lanka. England’s first innings against India yielded 537, but the match ended in a tie. Root scored 124. The ICC named him to the World Test XI for his 2016 efforts. He joined England’s Cricket World Cup squad in April 2019. He scored two centuries and three fifties in England’s first six matches. Root played his 250th England match against Sri Lanka on June 21, 2019.
Root was selected for the England Test squad against New Zealand in May 2022. He hit 115* in the second innings of the first Test match, helping England chase 277 runs. This earned him Man of the Match. He hit 176 in the opening innings of the second Test match. He struck 86* in England’s second innings in the third Test match to help chase 296 runs.
Test Captaincy of Joe Root
Root took over as full-time Test captain on February 13, 2017, after Alastair Cook quit. This made him England’s 80th captain. On July 6, 2017, in his first match as captain, against South Africa at Lord’s, Root hit 190, his 12th Test century. He was the sixth England player (and the one with the most runs) to score a century on his first Test as captain. He also helped get Gary Ballance back into the England team, who played for the same county as him. Root led England in the 2019 Ashes Series, which Australia won 2–2. Joe moved up to bat at three after much debate before the series.
Root missed the opening Test of the three-match West Indies series to attend the birth of his second child. Joe returned to skipper England to a 2–1 series win, setting up a declaration in the last Test with a 68-not-out. Root was England’s best run-scorer in the 2021–22 Ashes series, but he only scored three fifties and 89, as England lost 4–0. Chris Silverwood was fired as England head coach and Root was called to resign as captain. However, he was retained for the away series against West Indies and scored a second-innings century in the drawn First Test, bringing his total to 24 and placing him second on the England Test centurions list.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 131 | 240 | 20 | 11168 | 254 | 50.76 | 19769 | 56.49 | 30 | 5 | 58 | 1220 | 41 |
| ODI | 158 | 147 | 23 | 6207 | 133 | 50.06 | 7140 | 86.93 | 16 | 0 | 36 | 496 | 46 |
| T20I | 32 | 30 | 5 | 893 | 90 | 35.72 | 707 | 126.31 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 92 | 16 |
| IPL | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10.0 | 15 | 66.67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 131 | 131 | 4628 | 2504 | 54 | 5/8 | 5/33 | 3.25 | 46.37 | 85.70 | 1 | 0 |
| ODI | 158 | 69 | 1553 | 1494 | 26 | 3/52 | 3/52 | 5.77 | 57.46 | 59.73 | 0 | 0 |
| T20I | 32 | 9 | 84 | 139 | 6 | 2/9 | 2/9 | 9.93 | 23.17 | 14.0 | 0 | 0 |
| IPL | 3 | 1 | 12 | 14 | 0 | 0/14 | 0/14 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
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