New Delhi. The bat of England’s legendary batsman Joe Root is spitting fire these days. After chasing the great records of Sachin Tendulkar in Test cricket, now Root has created history in One Day International cricket as well. In the third ODI against India played at Lord’s Cricket Ground, he achieved a historic feat, which no England batsman before him had been able to do. Joe Root has become the first England batsman to score 50 or more (50 plus) six consecutive times in the history of ODI cricket. In this match played against India, he played a stormy inning of 74 unbeaten runs in just 48 balls. On the basis of his unmatched innings, host England set a huge target of 388 runs for India.
When Joe Root came to the crease, the England team was in a very strong position after losing one wicket for 192 runs in the 31st over. However, batting on the Lord’s pitch was not that easy and the ball was coming intermittently. Root took no time at all in assessing the circumstances. The Indian team entered this match without star bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav, of which Root took full advantage. In the beginning, instead of taking risks, he took the innings forward by taking single-double and did not give any chance to the Indian bowlers. Once he was fully settled at the crease, he shifted gears in the death overs and unleashed runs all over the field.
Joe Root broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record.
Included in the elite list of great players
With this innings, Joe Root has joined the club of select batsmen in the world who have scored six or more 50 plus scores in ODIs consecutively. Root is the 13th batsman to do so in world cricket. Root’s consistency can be gauged from the fact that even Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar himself could not achieve this feat six consecutive times in his entire ODI career. Sachin had scored more than 50 five consecutive times in the year 1994.
If we look at ODI history, the feat of scoring 50 plus scores five or more consecutive times has been done a total of 41 times. 36 different batsmen from the world have touched this milestone. In this, the dominance of India’s modern run machine Virat Kohli has been most special, who has scored five or more consecutive 50 plus scores for a record five times in his career.
Pakistan’s dominance in record books
Even though Joe Root has created history by scoring six consecutive half-centuries, the names of Pakistan’s batsmen are at the top in this list. There have been only two players in ODI history who have scored 50 plus scores more than six times consecutively. At number one in this magical list is former Pakistan legend Javed Miandad, who had scored 50 or more in 9 consecutive matches in the year 1987. After him, Pakistan’s Imam-ul-Haq is at second place, who had achieved this feat in 7 consecutive matches during the year 2021-2022.
Veteran who scored six consecutive 50 plus runs
After Javed Miandad (9) and Imam-ul-Haq (7), there are a total of 11 batsmen who have scored more than 50 runs in 6 consecutive matches. In this list, West Indies great Gordon Greenidge had done this feat for the first time in the year 1979-1980. After this, Andrew Jones of New Zealand (1988-1989), Mark Waugh of Australia (1999) and Mohammad Yusuf of Pakistan (2003) equaled this record.
Talking about modern cricket, New Zealand’s Kane Williamson scored this score 6 consecutive times in 2015 and his partner Ross Taylor in 2018-2019. West Indies’ aggressive batsman Chris Gayle (2018-2019), Ireland’s Paul Stirling (2019), West Indies’ Shai Hope (2020-2021) and Pakistan’s current captain Babar Azam (2021-2022) are also part of this elite group. Now Joe Root’s name has also been proudly added to this list at 13th place.
Root has a chance to change history
The most special thing about Joe Root at this time is that among all the 13 batsmen included in this list, he is the only player whose wonderful journey has still not ended, that is, his record is still ‘active’. This golden journey of Joe Root started in January 2026 against Sri Lanka. On that tour played at the R Premadasa Stadium, Root defeated the Lankan bowlers and scored innings of 61 (90 balls), 75 (90 balls) and unbeaten 111 (108 balls) respectively. After this, he continued his form against India also and completed the incredible streak of six matches by crossing the fifty mark in three consecutive matches.
