Joe Root is not too fussed about his failure to convert starts into centuries, saying that it’s “just a matter of time” before he can reverse the trend.
The England Test captain last scored a century in the longest format back in August 2017 during the first Test of the three-match series against the Windies in Birmingham. Since then he has hit nine half-centuries in nine Tests but has been unable to cross three figures even once.
In a bid to address that, Root will move up to No.3 for the upcoming series against Pakistan and India, and said, “When you’re losing it is very hard because you look at that and you think sometimes the difference is going on and making big hundreds. One thing I will say is that if I keep getting up and beyond 50 and I start going on a bit more frequently then we’ll be in a strong place as a side and I’ll be scoring a lot more runs.”
