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Most Runs For England In Home Tests
Yousef Majid signs professional contract with Surrey
Alec Stewart a probable for the national selector role
#OTD in 2002: Trio of Sachin, Dravid and Ganguly hit centuries in the same innings of a Test match
It was the only instance of the India trio reaching three figures simultaneously in a single innings.
Alec Stewart defends County cricket, says, 'We've still got good players in the championship.'
Among the several reasons that are getting mentioned by the cricket pundits for the ongoing poor string of performance by the England test team, a prominent one is the inability of England's County championship to produce quality players.
Joe Root becomes first player to score double ton in 100th Test
England skipper Joe Root hit a six off Ravichandran Aswin to score his second double century in three matches. With the double hundred, he also became the first Test cricketer in the 144-year-old history of the game to score a double hundred in his 100th Test. As soon as he got past 184, he also became the highest run-scorer for a batsman playing his 100th Test. He broke the 16-year-old record of Inzamam-Ul-Haq, which the Pakistan batsman made against India while playing his 100th Test at Bengaluru in 2005. Root, who eventually got out leg before wicket to a Shahbaz Nadeem delivery for 218, also became the third English cricketer after Colin Cowdrey and Alec Stewart to score a hundred in their 100th Test. At the time of writing this new, England were 479-6 in the 156th over.