Cricket World Player of the Week Joe Root England

by Alastair Symondson Friday 20 July 2018

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Joe Root scored two brilliant centuries for England against India in the 3 match ODI series, which England won 2-1 and is this week's Cricket World Player of the Week. The first at Lord’s in the 2^nd ODI, when England were 1-0 down, where he scored 113 and the 2^nd , at his home County Ground – Headingley, in the 3^rd and final ODI of the series, he scored 100*.

England v India 2^nd ODI Lord’s July 14th

England 322-7 (Joe Root 113, Eoin Morgan 53, Kuldeep Yadav 3-68)

India 236 (Suresh Raina 46, Virat Kohli 45, Liam Plunkett 4-46)

England won by 86 runs; series level at 1-1 with one to play

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YEEEESSS!! @root66 scores 100 not out and we win by 8 wickets to complete a 2-1 series victory!! ????????????????

Scorecard/Videos: https://t.co/vKIy6aOO6l #ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/aQ6oE8yibn
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) July 17, 2018

England v India 3rd ODI Headingley July 17th

India 256 – 8 (Virat Kohli 71; Adil Rashid 3-49, David Willey 3-40)

England 260 - 2 (Joe Root 100*, Eoin Morgan 88*)

Result England won by 8 wickets and take series 2-1

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The England batsman’s back-to-back centuries have also helped him into second place in the latest MRF Tyres ICC ODI Player Rankings that have also seen India’s spinner Kuldeep Yadav break into the top-10 for the first time in his career as well.

In the three-match ODI series, Root has gone ahead of Babar Azam (Pakistan), Rohit Sharma (India), David Warner (Australia) and Ross Taylor (New Zealand) to a career-high second position.