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“Commentator shell-shocked” – Twitter reacts after Joe Root proves commentator wrong by playing a perfect reverse sweep

Former England Test captain Joe Root played a superb brand of cricket on Day 1 of the second Test match against the New Zealand cricket team at Basin Reserve in Wellington.

The first day’s play already came to a close with Joe Root and Harry Brook dictating the terms by taking the bowling attack to the cleaners. Harry Brook was in a rush as he scored runs pretty quickly.

On the other hand, Joe Root sensibly played the game by not taking any calculative risk in his shot selection. Talking about the game, New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl first.

The Three Lions were in a spot of bother after losing three quick wickets inside seven overs itself. While everyone expected that England would run through a batting collapse, the likes of Harry Brook and Joe Root steadied the ship.

Joe Root proves the commentator wrong by playing a perfect reverse sweep

The duo added a record 293-run partnership for the fourth wicket as both the batters successfully scored a century apiece. Both remained not out on the day’s play as England scored 315/3.

Joe Root remained unbeaten on 101 off 182 balls with the help of seven boundaries. On the other hand, Harry Brook scripted history after he became the first player in the history of Test cricket to score 800 or more runs in the first nine Test innings.

As things stand, Harry Brook scored 807 runs to his name so far. He remained unbeaten on 184 off 169 balls including 24 boundaries and 5 hits over the fence at a strike rate of 108.88.

Meanwhile, an interesting incident took place during the fourth ball of the 63rd over. At that point, Joe Root was batting on 88 runs and meanwhile, the commentator said “no reverse sweeps” from Joe Root.

On the very next delivery, Joe Root perfectly executed a reverse sweep off Neil Wagner to play the reverse sweep for a boundary and the commentator was literally taken aback by Joe Root’s response.

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