The second Test match against India is scheduled to be played at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham. The match will kick off on July 2 (Pic: X/@ICC)
Root is the highest run-scorer at the venue. Having played nine Test matches in Birmingham, the right-hander has scored 920 runs, including three centuries and five half-centuries. His top score at Edgbaston is an unbeaten 142 runs (Pic: X/@ICC)
If Root manages to register a ton, he will surpass Australia's Steve Smith and India's Rahul Dravid to become the fifth-highest century-scorer in the longest format of the game (Pic: X/@ICC)
Currently, he is tied with Smith and Dravid in fifth place on the list with 36 centuries in the names of three each (Pic: X/@ICC)
Root sits in the fifth place on the list of highest run-scorers of all time in Test cricket. So far, he has scored 13,087 runs in 154 Test matches. Two good outings in Birmingham could help him surpass Dravid to become the fourth-highest run-scorer in the longest format of the game. Dravid stepped away from the formats as the fourth-highest run-scorer in Test cricket with 13,288 runs in 164 matches (Pic: X/@ICC)
The 34-year-old is also one century shy of levelling former South African cricketer Hashim Amla as the sixth-highest century-scorer across all formats of the game (Pic: X/@ICC)
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