In the Boxing Day Test, Root once again arrived at the crease early to rebuild the innings after yet another failure of his openers. Once again, Root reached his fifty without much support from the others. During the knock, he also made a world record of scoring the most runs in a calendar year by a captain - 1680.
However, Australian bowlers have been ruthless against him. Soon after reaching his fifty, Root edged one to the keeper off Mitchell Starc's cross-seam delivery.
Starc gets the big one - England's captain is gone!
Root out for exactly 50 #Ashes pic.twitter.com/cqkjIqCy3W
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 26, 2021
There were two emotions on the field simultaneously - Australia celebrating and Joe Root screaming in anger. Probably the two contrasting things that have been going on in the England captain's mind throughout 2021 - to celebrate or not to celebrate.
