Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope entered the file books as England dominated Ireland on Day 2 of the one-off Test at Lord’s on Friday, June 2. Duckett, enjoying in his first Test match at house, smashed 182 off 178 and Ollie Pope recorded 205 off simply 208 as England declared their second innings on 524/4 in simply 82.4 overs with a dominant 352-run lead within the first innings.
Meanwhile, followers at Lord’s witnessed Ben Duckett breaking a 93-run-old file set by legendary Australian Sir Don Bradman. Duckett broke Bradaman’s file of the quickest 150 at Lord’s in Test cricket as he took solely 150 balls to succeed in the milestone. Bradmon beforehand held the file when he smashed a 166-ball 150 towards England at Lord’s in 1930. For England, Kevin Pietersen held this file when he took 176 balls to succeed in this milestone in a Test towards South Africa in 2009.
Duckett missed out on registering his maiden double century as he was bowled out by Graham Hume whereas batting at 182 runs. But Pope managed to file his maiden double hundred by smashing a six off Andy McBrine within the 83rd over. Pope took solely 207 balls to succeed in a 200-run mark to file the quickest double ton at Lord’s. He additionally broke legendary Ian Botham’s file for the quickest double ton in England in Test cricket.
Records continued to shatter at Lord’s as Pope and Joe Root added 147 runs for the third wicket. Root additionally approached aggressive cricket and registered his 58th half-century in Tests in simply 54 balls. Root accomplished 11000 runs in Test cricket with a single on the subsequent ball and have become the one eleventh participant to realize this historic determine.
Root grew to become the quickest cricketer to succeed in 11000 runs in Test cricket by way of plenty of matches, 130. He broke Brian Lara’s file, who recorded 11000 runs in 131 Test matches, and in addition grew to become the eighth quickest by way of the variety of Test innings, 238.
