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Former England captain Michael Vaughan waxed lyrical about England star batter Joe Root, because the latter notched up a thirty fifth Check century, going previous the tally of cricket icons like Sunil Gavaskar and Brian Lara. Nevertheless, regardless of Root’s constant exploits, Vaughan was open to confess his weak point. Actually, Vaughan mentioned that Root solely struggles towards one bowler in your entire world, and went on to purpose why. That bowler is none apart from the No. 1-ranked ICC Check bowler on this planet – India’s Jasprit Bumrah.
Vaughan admitted that the “solely” bowler that Root isn’t good at going through is the Indian tempo spearhead.
“The one bowler he doesn’t fairly line up is Jasprit Bumrah, I reckon, however who does?” Vaughan wrote in his column for The Telegraph UK.
“To be pretty much as good as he’s it’s important to choose up the ball so shortly out of the hand, which provides him that further little bit of time. He’ll already be engaged on that and fascinated by handle him (Bumrah) subsequent summer time,” Vaughan added.
Bumrah and Root are prone to face off in June 2025, when India tour England for a five-match Check collection. That collection is within the subsequent World Check Championship (WTC) cycle (2025-27), and India could nicely face England earlier than that within the WTC 23-25 closing.
Vaughan was bullish in his assertion that Root doesn’t have any main weak point, be it towards tempo or spin.
“There isn’t any apparent technique to get him out, towards tempo or spin. For the time being, bowlers are ready for him to make a mistake,” mentioned Vaughan.
Root slammed his thirty fifth Check ton within the first Check towards Pakistan in Multan. He ended Day 3 unbeaten on 176, and will probably be eyeing his sixth double century on Day 4.
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