While root: Cricket News & Match Updates

Root equalled Ponting’s total of 41 Test centuries, doing so in fewer matches. Ponting achieved the feat across 168 Tests between 1995 and 2012, while Root reached the same mark in his 163rd appearance since debuting against India in Nagpur in December 2012. The knock was also the first international century of the 2026 calendar year.

It's the second century for Root on the tour who had curiously not reached the magical mark in 14 Test matches held in Australia before the current series.   Read More...