Joe Root must be a fan of the Devil’s advocate, the film bending mind with Al Pacino like Satan.
In this superior, but evoking exploration of morality, ambition and temptation, Pacino provides refrigerant advice to Kevin Lomax, Keanu Reeves as a young lawyer: “No matter how well you are, never let them see them.” Root, English cricket Maestro, embodies this wisdom.
In a world full of cricket Divás, no one has seen him, as he, as a sprinter that races in an alternative track far from the center of attention, before, Bar Sachin Tendulkar.
On Friday, July 25th, during the fourth test against India in Old Trafford, saw it 150-Run Masterclass Root, which crossed it Rahula David, Jacques Kallis and Ricky Ponting to become the second highest runner in test history and watched only tendulkar. With age and form on its side, the root is set to revise the test record tendulkar.
And yet, who would think that a few years ago Root would be ascending cricket MT Everest, the peak of the launch?
Sudden creation of cricket supernova
Room’s rise to cricket immortality was not an immediate star fire, but a quiet, smoldering glow that broke out into supernova and caught a cricket world out of sight.
When he made his debut against India in Nagpur in 2012 and recorded a bold 73 out of 229 balls against a huge attack on Spin, Root was a promising talent, but not a headline.
The critics suspended him as reliable, but his early career lacked a touch of peers such as Virat Kohli or Steve Smith. Before 2020, Root’s 17th century in 89 tests and a modest level of transformation placed it as Underdog among Fab Four. Among his peers was the root of silent, always in the shadow of Kohli Swagger, Smith’s Maverick Master and steel Kane Williamson. ”
But after 2020, Root transformed and got rid of the captain in 2022 to release its full potential under the “basball”. Since 2021 he scored 5,586 runs in 60 tests on average 56.42, with 21 centuries, transformed over the middle of the 1950s into hundreds.
In the Cricket’s Fab Four race, Root is a real turtle for other hares, its stable, unobtrusive step survives their early sprints.
Fate Fab Four
While Kohli, Smith and Williamson burst from blocks with a charming brilliance. Kohli’s insolent charisma shone in his debut century in 2011, which led to high expectations and its crowning as Tendulkar’s heir. However, its form has disappeared since 2020, with only five centuries in five years and a sharp decline on average. Kohli began to fail against the seam and fought against spin. After flashing for several years, his candle paid off and blocked her early promise.
Smith, an unorthodox genius, has accumulated 9,685 runs in 109 tests, its 32 centuries is a characteristic feature of innovation, but has looked a bit vulnerable in the last two years. Williamson, Steel Technician, has 8,881 runs in 102 tests. His consistency was awarded, but the injury and the New Zealand thin test plan slowed him down.
Root, on the other hand, turned into a running machine in the second half of his career. Its 150 on Old Trafford took him to 13,409 runs and overcame predat (13 288), Kallis (13 289) and Ponting (13 378), leaving him 2,512 Thandulkarov 15 921 runs.
English Lord
Joe Root lives with a quiet humility that keeps him far from her dazzling light. Root was born on December 30, 1990 in Sheffield and was raised in Kricket Mad’s family. His first days in Sheffield Collegiate Cricket Club, under the shadow of Michael Vaughan, saw the shy talent that appeared, earning a scholarship at the workSop College at 15 and September at the Bunbury 2005 festival.
As a boy, Root spent hours improving his cover units in Yorkshire’s bold networks, often trained with bicycles with bigger dreams than suggested his small frame.
Anecdots from youth paint a picture of shyness: teammates remember the adolescent root of blushing when they are praised for a century, rather let the bat spoke. His silent leadership was anointed by his friends and fans with a prophetic nickname on his college days – FEC (future captain of England).
His non-intervention career reflects this reserve-on the difference from the peers, avoiding scandals, with his attitude against homophobia in 2019, and calmly said Shannon Gabriel, “there is nothing wrong with being gay,” he shows the principle of provocation.
An honorary enemy and a friend
Root’s character, a mixture of silent resistance and deep sporting behavior, shines the brightest in moments that exceed the result table.
14th July 2025, during the third test in Lord’s, Indie’s Chase 193 ended with a heart break and dropped by 22 short, when Shaib Bashir rejected Muhammed Siri to 4 of the 30 balls. Siraj, visibly broken, fell on his bat, the ball turned back by cruel crossing to release the stump on his leg.
In the middle of the roaring Lord Dave and the English jubilation, Root was the first to rush to Siraj, his gesture of empathy in the match marked by fire exchanges.
Through Siraj’s earlier sledge-remembered Root’s “Bazball” with a mockery “Baz, Bazball, I want to see” 1 day. He offered a firm handshake, a fine heel on his back and a quiet word.
In the multi in 2024, where he scored 262, Root quietly rejected the ceremonial wave to the crowd and preferred to share a private nod with Harry Brook and greeted his 454-running partnership as a testimony of his team’s first ethos.
What root is teaching us
In a game that so often adores spectacular and insolent, Roon’s path reminds us that the actual size is created by patience, humility and tireless efforts to prepare.
Its quiet resistance and unwavering commitment to the team underlines the deeper truth: in sports, as in life, it is not always the loudest or fastest one who gets to the top, but those who last, who build others and who play with their hearts.
The Room’s story is proof that they have been chasing a fleeting success in the world and the shallow fame with a reinforced hype, a permanent size is based on character and fabric.
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Published:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published on:
27th July 2025
