Cricket
Joe Root Bags ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year 2021 Award
With his impressive batting efforts in 2021, Root became only the third player in Test history to score 1700 runs in a calendar year. His team might have had some embarrassing defeats in 2021 but Root surely had a very memorable year in Test cricket with the bat.
Joe Root, England's Test captain was named ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year 2021. The England batter has had a prolific year in whites despite his team's poor performances. He scored 708 runs in 15 matches which included six hundreds.
See ICC's Tweet:
⭐️ Joe Root 🆚 Kyle Jamieson 🆚 Dimuth Karunaratne 🆚 Ravichandran Ashwin ⭐️
The winner of the 2021 ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year is revealed 👉 https://t.co/oH0YWiZpfI pic.twitter.com/IumWnZCb6R
— ICC (@ICC) January 24, 2022
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