Sydney:
England’s star batter Joe Root on Saturday equalled former Australia captain Ricky Ponting’s record for most Test centuries, further strengthening his position among cricket’s all-time greats.
Root scored a magnificent 160 runs in the first innings of the final Test of the Ashes series in Sydney, marking his second Test century in Australia. His first hundred on Australian soil also came earlier in the same series, during the second Test.
The knock took Root’s career tally to 41 Test centuries, placing him jointly third on the list of players with the most hundreds in Test cricket, alongside Ponting.
Root is now just 63 runs short of reaching 14,000 Test runs, while he requires 1,985 more runs to surpass Sachin Tendulkar, the leading run-scorer in the history of Test cricket.
The England batter has previously indicated that he has no immediate plans to retire and is expected to reassess his future in international cricket after the conclusion of the 2025–27 World Test Championship cycle.
