Watch: Joe Root rounded off his magnificent century in the second England-India Test with an audacious reverse ramp shot off Mohammed Siraj that wouldn’t have been out of place had he been batting a couple of miles away at The Oval in The Hundred.
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Root has rarely been in better form, and with only No.11 James Anderson for company, showed off just how good his eye and his touch was. With Anderson getting peppered, there was no use hanging around. Instead, when Root finally got back on strike after a 10-ball over laden with no balls, he crouched, shuffled, and played a reverse ramp over the slips. So well was he timing it that the ball flew almost all the way for six, bouncing just short of the ropes.
The Trent Rockets batter, who has repeatedly stated his ambition to break back into England’s T20I team, demonstrated his big-hitting skills again next ball, slog-sweeping into the leg side for another boundary. He ended up unbeaten on 180, having given England a slender lead of 27.
Watch the audacious Root reverse ramp below:
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