Joe Root made history as England comfortably beat West Indies by eight wic൲kets in Southampton on Friday.
The stand-in opener became the first Englishman to score three World Cup hundreds🅠 as the hosts moved up to seco🐬nd position in the points table.
After opting to bowl first, England dismissed the Windies side for just 212, but sustained injuries to Eoin Morgan and Jason Roy along the 🐬way.
Root remained the star of the show at the Ro💜se Bowl with an unbeaten 100 and t♍wo wickets with the ball.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Everything almost perfect today for , w♑ell playeꦦd champion looking too good!
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
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Joe Root (100* & 2/27) now only the 2nd England player to score a century and also take two wkts in same match after Moeen Ali (128 & 2/47 v Scotland in 2015 at C'church)
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman)
England have never ever had a more consistent player across the different formats than … He is an fantastic player and one which all young players should be trying to copy ….
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan)
As Monty Burns once said , Its like taking candy from a baby ….. England stroll on in pursuit of the World Cup.
— Niall John O Brien (@niallnobiobrien)
Joe Root has three 100s in World Cups, the most for any England batsman.ꦰ These tꦏhree 100s have come in the last six WC innings.
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad)
A century, 2+ wic♛kets and 2+𝄹 catches in the same ODI:
Aravinda de Silva v AUS, 1996 (107*, 3/42 & 2 ct)
JOE ROOT v Windes, Today (100*, 2/27 & 2 ct)— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
Player of the Match 🤝 Entertainer of the Match
— ICC Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup)
Joe Root back at the top of the run-scoring chart for the , with a cool average of 93 – with 2 100s and a 50.
In form one might say…
— Jack Mendel ✍️ (@Mendelpol)
Most WC 100s for each team:
Eng – Root (3)
Aus – Ponting (5)
SA – ABD (4)
WI – Richards (3)
NZ – Astle/Fleming/Guptill/Styris/Turner (2)
Ind – Tendulkar (6)
Pak – Rameez/Anwar (3)
SL – Sangakkara (5)— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
Chris Woakes at 3?? 😱
England have decided to take a …….
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
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