The 34-year-old succeeded Owen Farrell as England skipper ahead of last year’s championship before being demoted to vice-captain.

The most exciting match of the tournament was played in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 on Wednesday, 26 February. Yes, we are talking about the eighth match of the current season of the Champions Trophy in which Afghanistan defeated the England team by 8 runs at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

Afghanistan take on Australia in their final group-stage match versus Australia.

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South African pacer Kagiso Rabada expressed his frustration after England batter Joe Root pulled out of his stance during their Champions Trophy 2025 game

Joe Root hailed Jos Buttler’s “brilliant” white-ball captaincy as the Yorkshireman claimed England are “doing more things right” than when he led the Test side. Buttler has overseen a downturn in fortunes, with England surrendering both limited ...

England's centurion Joe Root had an opportunity to take the team past the finish line but fell to a short ball that banged into his glove; Afghanistan's 8-run win means England have been eliminated fr

As per Cricbuzz, Root recorded his first fifty-plus score in 11 ODI innings against Australia (since June 2018). The English batter could have completed his maiden ton against this opposition in the format (in 30 ODIs). With his first run in the match, Root also completed 20,500 runs in international cricket.

Joe Root made history by scoring 120 runs off 111 balls in the 2025 Champions Trophy match between England and Afghanistan at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. However, despite Root's remarkable performance,

Joe Root hit his maiden ODI century in almost six years. It was in 2019 against West Indies when the cricketer last hit an ODI century. He also equalled Brian Lara's record of scoring 53 international centuries.

Joe Root's century in the 2025 Champions Trophy clash between England and Afghanistan at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore set a massive all-time record. Root's ton is the second match of the match after Ibrahim Zadran also completed the milestone in the first innings.

Joe Root's 120 went in vain as England lost regular wickets to lose their second straight ODI to the Afghans after their shock defeat in the 2023 World Cup in India. Needing 13 off the last six balls with one wicket in hand, pace bowler Omarzai kept calm ...