Joe Root Twirls His Bat Before Facing The Ball, Video Goes Viral

A slow motion video of Joe Root's batting on social media has gone viral, in which he can be seen twirling his bat before facing the ball. 

Joe Root, Photo Courtesy: @root66 / Twitter

England cricket team's star batsman Joe Root is busy touring Asia these days with his national team. Right now, their stop is Sri Lanka but, soon Joe Root along with his team will be landing on the Indian soil. Root's destructive batting form in Sri Lanka is a big reason for worry for team India. Root scored a century in the first Test played in Galle and then scored a century again in the second Test.

Clearly, Root has adapted remarkably well to Asian conditions. His current form has also given him the title of the best foreign batsman to play spin inside Asia. In the second Test being played in Galle, fans saw a very interesting change in Root's game. This change was in his batting style.

What's new about Root's batting style?

A slow motion video of Joe Root's batting on social media has gone viral, in which he can be seen twirling his bat before facing the ball. 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joe Root twirling his bat before facing the ball. <a href="https://t.co/QLi86DXE3o" rel='nofollow'>pic.twitter.com/QLi86DXE3o</a></p>&mdash; Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) <a href="https://twitter.com/mufaddal_vohra/status/1353215596272345088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel='nofollow'>January 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Now we can't be sure whether twirling bat is anyhow helping Root score runs but it is obvious that Root's tour of Sri Lanka as a batsman is going great. Joe Root has scored about 50 percent (49.26%) of the total runs scored by England so far during England's tour of Sri Lanka.

In the first innings of the second Test being played in Galle, Root scored his 19th century of his career and also completed 1500 runs in Asia. These runs have been scored by the England captain at an awesome average of 55 off 31 innings. Now, seeing Root play on the Asian pitches with such aggression, the nervousness of Team India is bound to increase.