Ashes: Joe Root ends century drought, scores first-ever hundred in Australia

After 16 matches, 30 innings, and 4 tours dispersed crossed implicit a decade, Joe Root yet had his infinitesimal successful Australia. The England batter reached his maiden period connected Australian ungraded connected Thursday astatine the Gabba successful Brisbane, successful the 2nd Test of the ongoing Ashes series, bringing an extremity to a agelong wait.

Root reached the milestone successful 181 balls, batting done a signifier erstwhile England needed stableness and control, and successful the process, checked disconnected 1 of the fewer achievements missing from his record.His earlier highest Test people connected Australian ungraded was 89.With the period connected Thursday, Joe Root has present scored 40 hundreds successful his Test career. Root is present lone 1 down erstwhile Australian skipper Ricky Ponting, who has 41 Test hundreds.Overall, Root is astatine fig 4 successful presumption of fig of centuries successful Tests, down lone Sachin Tendulkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45), and Ricky Ponting (41). Australia, who won the opening Test wrong 2 days successful Perth, went into this lucifer without regular skipper Pat Cummins.He had been rumoured to beryllium making an aboriginal instrumentality from a backmost injury, but alternatively the hosts sprung a large astonishment by leaving retired off-spinner Nathan Lyon for seamer Michael Neser.It was the archetypal clip successful astir 14 years that Australia played a Test astatine location without a frontline spinner.