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Joe Root is the most overrated Test cricketer in the world today by a country mile

Robert said:
Th MOOAT is player of the match and leads England to an away win in SL.
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best innings of the year from me, outstanding. Let's hope he starts converting his 50's into 100's consistently.
 
He is good, we need to understand England plays lots of tests, so hard to maintain the form, fitness, consistency and longevity of the game.
 
Tons away from home in the last 10 years,

Kohli 14
Cook 14
Smith 10
Kane 9
Pujara 8
Azhar 8
Clarke 8
YK 8
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Root 4

He needs to start scoring tons away from home. Cute 50s often don't win test matches.
 
Wasn't he supposed to be the best batsman in the world the moment he scored 124 in Sri Lanka? :))

And didn't Kane Williamson snatch that title from him immediately and became the best batsman in the world when he scored that century against Pakistan in the U.A.E.?
 
vandokkum said:
Scored 3 hundreds in last 22 tests, in test cricket there is no big 4.
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It's really a big two between Smith and Kohli tbh.

Kane doesn't convert as much for an elite batsmen. Root is a lot worse than him (in converting).
 
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Hitman said:
Wasn't he supposed to be the best batsman in the world the moment he scored 124 in Sri Lanka? :))

And didn't Kane Williamson snatch that title from him immediately and became the best batsman in the world when he scored that century against Pakistan in the U.A.E.?
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They proved that they belong to fab four with those performance. They didn't became the best in the world though IMO.
 
Ab Fan said:
They proved that they belong to fab four with those performance. They didn't became the best in the world though IMO.
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The problem is they're not as consistent as the other two, they have one good performance and follow up with little after that. They don't have that period where it feels like they're going to score a century every second innings like Smith and Kohli.
 
The current batting averages: -

Smith: - 61(64 tests)
Kohli: - 53(77 tests)
Kane: - 51(70 tests)
Pujara:- 51(68 tests)
Root: - 49(78 tests)
 
Root has always been overrated. He's the best English batter but nowhere near the likes of Smith, Kohli, Williamson. Just because he's English and England rarely get great Test batsmen, Root became their darling.
 
He's been disappointing to say the least. Needs to convert those starts, really batting in the top if you have 41 fifties and only 15 hundreds that is a problem.
 
Dismissed by a brute of a delivery by Alzarri Joseph - and a brilliant parry catch in the slips - in Antigua

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Notable ego has been bruised with his outlandish claims on Root.
 
This pitch looks difficult to bat on but worrying signs for England when their best bat can’t score.
 
Varun said:
Has only scored 4 of those in his entire career. Versus Kohli's 14. Smith's 10. Williamson's 9.
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That's terrible. At home many batsmen score big, but I want to see scoring tons when playing away.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joe Root last 6 Test innings:<br><br>7<br>7<br>4<br>22<br>46<br>7<br>Runs 93<br>Average 15.50<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WIvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WIvENG</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1091763746148626432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Abdullah719 said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joe Root last 6 Test innings:<br><br>7<br>7<br>4<br>22<br>46<br>7<br>Runs 93<br>Average 15.50<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WIvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WIvENG</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1091763746148626432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Root is class. Going through a rough phase like Kohli did back in 2014-15.
 
troodon said:
Root is class. Going through a rough phase like Kohli did back in 2014-15.
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Kohli only had 1 bad England tour in 2014 where he averaged 13. Since then Kohli has averaged 86, 38, 62, 53, 47, 59, 40 in away tours (not counting 1 match Bangladesh tour)

Last time Root averaged 50+ in an away tour was 2015.
 
Root will be back. I am not concerned about him

The big issue is England openers who look like nightwatchmen at best..
 
He needs another 3 year peak to catch up with Kohli/Smith now. He's way behind now, especially in the centuries count. Centuries separate the goods from the greats. :srt
 
Robert said:
Lots of time for him to have another peak.

Desperately needs some test class openers and number three though.
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This.

England's **** poor top order means that Root is facing shiny ball more often than not.
 
Root is a tremendous batsman. He is simply going through a rough patch - I expect him to have a big World Cup and Ashes. He is the youngest of all the elite batsmen in the world and his peak is yet to come.

In spite of his recent slump, I still consider him the second best all-round batsman of this generation.
 
I simply have never been convinced of his performances abroad...even when he was betting well he wasn't dominating series after series abroad like Kohli and Smith have done...

I won't be surprised if he gets back to his best once he starts playing in England...
 
Just a slump in form nothing else.
He is also younger than other members of fab four and still has a lot of time.
 
Mamoon said:
Root is a tremendous batsman. He is simply going through a rough patch - I expect him to have a big World Cup and Ashes. He is the youngest of all the elite batsmen in the world and his peak is yet to come.

In spite of his recent slump, I still consider him the second best all-round batsman of this generation.
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He was at 1 probably 3 years ago.

Right now there's a strong case for Williamson ahead of him.

Smith and Root at par i guess.
 
Another English player whose performance dipped sharply after getting the burden of captaincy.
 
Root is struggling, and with captaincy and strange ideas of having a team of 11 batsmen rather than specialists is weird. Their top 3 are the worst.

Once the holes are fixed his performances would be better.

But still Root is good only in Tests, way behind in ODIs and T20s
 
I know its a completely different format but Root plays so well in ODI's with no pressure of captaining the team. I think if England could get the captaincy off him that would help his form. Some players can cope with the demands of captaincy but i don't think Root is one of them. England need the prolific scoring Root back. He can't even score fifties anymore. The only problem is that there are no other real captaincy options. Butler is one but his place is not really secure.
 
Root is a class batsman. Out of form right now but he's going to be a key player during the Ashes.
 
The Viper said:
I know its a completely different format but Root plays so well in ODI's with no pressure of captaining the team. I think if England could get the captaincy off him that would help his form. Some players can cope with the demands of captaincy but i don't think Root is one of them. England need the prolific scoring Root back. He can't even score fifties anymore. The only problem is that there are no other real captaincy options. Butler is one but his place is not really secure.
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The problem is every England captain bar none starts to struggle with the captaincy a year or two into it. If it isn't Root, you will merely be anointing another poor bloke to be the next champion of decline.
 
Varun said:
The problem is every England captain bar none starts to struggle with the captaincy a year or two into it. If it isn't Root, you will merely be anointing another poor bloke to be the next champion of decline.
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Gooch got better. Atherton and Nasser were about the same. Gatting the skipper was about the same in average as before captaincy but instead of consistency tended to go fail, fail, 150, fail, fail, 180.

But most decline in run production. There’s just too much for the skipper to do. Poor Root has it double hard because instead of Trescothick and Strauss above him like Vaughan did, he has nothing.
 
Cuts_and_cuts_hard said:
Root only has 4 centuries away from home. Any Asian batsman would be heavily criticized if he had such htb numbers.
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Very very poor from someone hailed as one of the greats of this generation, I personally rate Pujara more than him, Puji may not be be as talented as Root but he more than compensates it with sheer grit and temperament.
 
I still believe in terms of natural talent Root is probably in the same league with Kohli but the severe lack of fight and patience in him is what dragging him down.
 
PP likes to claim Umar Akmal has more natural talent than Kohli so that term has no value.
 
Hyperion66 said:
I still believe in terms of natural talent Root is probably in the same league with Kohli but the severe lack of fight and patience in him is what dragging him down.
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No, it’s a concentration issue. Most England skippers get it.

Still, here’s an overseas ton for him, the fifth out of sixteen.
 
Nice of him to step up when the series is over and England are already in a dominant position.

Some real tough runs from Joe fiddy :root
 
2 dead rubber tons out of his last 3 now.

Well, at least he is back in form.
 
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ManFan said:
Not convinced by this hundred in a dead rubber.
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Not sure this is a dead rubber in every sense - if England lost 0-3 and Root failed he would be under massive pressure to step down.
 
Root is starting to remind of me a certain Asad Shafiq

Rooty is class though, and I am sure he will score in more winning causes.
 
Root's Test average has dropped below 50, which shows that he hasn't been consistent for his team in recent times. Scoring a hundred and flopping in the rest of the innings will not help your team at all.
 
Hasn't been pretty for Joe Root the last few years.

Dud captain, dud batting leader, can't inspire anyone and isn't good enough to score runs at 3 :root

Seems like another grossly overrated English player who is rated highly because of the English media.
 
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