Top 5 scores of Joe Root against India in Test match cricket

Joe Root again scored a hundred against India. In the ongoing England vs. India Test match at Lord's, the batting maestro smashed a 104-run inning to drive his team to a fighting total of 387. From the beginning of his career, the England international has loved to score big runs against Team India. Through this article, we'll derive Root's top 5 innings against the brigade in blue. 

Joe Root's top 5 innings against India:

England vs. India, 2021, Chennai:

England: 578 and 178

India: 337 and 192

England won the match by 227 runs.

It was Joe Root's personal best against India. He went on to score 218 individually in the first innings of the Test match in Chennai. England, in this match, defeated India by a huge margin. India's bowling line-up contained stars like Jasprit Bumrah, Ravichandran Ashwin, and Ishant Sharma, who put in their efforts only to witness the grace of Joe Root. He faced 337 balls and launched 19 boundaries and a couple of 6s to construct the innings. 

England vs. India, 2021, Lord's:

India: 364 and 298/8d

England: 391 and 120

India won by 151 runs. 

It was the infamous match where India won against England at the Lord's. Despite Joe Root's sublime 180* off 321 knock in the first innings, England fell short in the second innings, where India got the space to dominate. KL Rahul won the man of the match award for his first-innings 129. The pace department of Team India with Ishan Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Mohammed Shami, and Jasprit Bumrah shined in both of the innings.

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England vs. India, 2014, Nottingham:

India: 457 and 391/9d

England: 496

Match drawn

Joe Root overshadowed a brilliant century of Murali Vijay. Root's stellar 154*-run innings put the home team near a 500-run landmark. India, batting first, scored 457, and England, in reply, bagged 496. James Anderson, the man of the match, caught everyone by surprise and made 81 in the first innings. Eventually, the nicely poised rivalry ended in a draw. 

England vs. India, 2014, The Oval:

India: 148 and 94

England: 486

England won by an innings and 244 runs.

The match was marked for two reasons—disastrous batting from team India and Joe Root's brilliant 149*. England won the match by a huge 244-run margin. Root got the man of the match award. In the contest, four England pacers—James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes, and Chris Jordan—destroyed India's batting not on one occasion but twice.

England vs. India, 2022, Birmingham:

India: 416 and 245

England: 284 and 378/3

England won by 7 wickets.

Heroic centuries from Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja went in vain because of Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root. In the high-scoring match between these two teams, Root's 142-run innings came at the right time. Maintaining a healthy strike rate, the right-handed batter took only 173 balls to score the amount of runs. During this innings, he smacked nineteen 4s and one 6. Bairstow was the man of the match for his 106 & 114* run innings.