Joe Root gives bizarre Coldplay analogy after third test loss against Sri Lanka
England batter Joe Root has compared their national team with the British band Coldplay following.
Their loss against Sri Lanka in the third Test of the series on Monday, September 9 at Kennington Oval, London. Sri Lanka beat England by eight wickets on Day 4 of the Test to avoid a whitewash as the hosts won the series by 2-1.
Pathum Nissanka scored an unbeaten century, hammering 127 off 124 balls, smashing 13 fours and two sixes helping his team chase down the target of 219 in the fourth innings. As a result, England lost their first Test of the home summer after whitewashing West Indies 3-0 earlier this year. Following their loss, Root admitted that the team won’t get everything right all of the time comparing themselves with English Band Coldplay saying that even they can’t be number one on the charts every week.
“We are not always going to get it right all of the time. I don’t think we played our best cricket this week and that is going to happen from time to time. Coldplay can’t be number one every week. For 90% of the summer we have. We have shown what a good team we can be,” Root told BBC Test Match Special.
Root’s record-breaking English summer
Meanwhile, Root had a phenomenal season at home as he finished as the highest run scorer of the series accumulating 375 runs from six innings at an average of 75 with two hundreds and one fifty. As a result, he was adjudged England’s Player of the series for shattering records during his long stays at the crease.
It was the sixth Player of the series win for Root making him the England player to have been awarded the honour most times in Test cricket, surpassing James Anderson’s tally of five. He was also adjudged Player of the summer, for finishing as the highest run scorer from his team having scored 774 runs from ten innings at an average of 74 with three hundreds and three fifties.
Root had a record-breaking summer with the bat where he became England’s leading centurion in the longest format with 34 tons surpassing Alastair Cook’s tally of 33 centuries. He also left behind Mahela Jayawardene, Shivanarine Chanderpaul, Brian Lara and Kumar Sangakkara to become the sixth highest run scorer in the history of the format with 12,402 runs to his name 146 matches. He will be eager to continue his dream run in the upcoming three-match series against Pakistan set to begin from October 7.