England star Batter Joe Root compared the England Cricket team with the British Band Coldplay following their loss against Sri Lanka in the third test at Kennington Oval.
Sri Lanka beat England by eight wickets on Day 04 of the final test to avoid a whitewash as the hosts won the series 2-1. Pathum Nissanka scored an unbeaten century with 127 off 124 balls, smashing 13 fours and two sixes helping his team chase the target of 219 runs 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 always get everything right comparing themselves to Coldplay that even they can’t be number one on the charts every time.
“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 will 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,” told Root.
Meanwhile, Root had a phenomenal season at home as he finished the highest run scorer of the series amassing 375 runs from six innings at an average of 75 with two hundreds and one fifty.
He was adjudged as Player of the Series for shattering records during his long stays at the crease. Joe Root had a record-breaking summer with the bat as 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 in 146 matches.
England will be playing a three-match T20I series and a five-match ODI series against Australia before playing a three-match test series against Pakistan starting on October 07 at Multan Cricket Stadium.
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