With his knock of 138 runs against Australia in the second Test of The Ashes at the Gabba in Brisbane, England batsman Joe Root scored his 40th hundred in Test cricket. It was Root’s first hundred against Australia in Australia and with his first Test century in Australia, Root has answered critics as well fans across the world. The England batsman, who is currently placed second in the all-time run getters list in Test cricket behind Sachin Tendulkar, took 30 innings in Australia to score his maiden Test hundred in Australia. With England placed at five for 2 when Root came out to bat on Thursday, former England captain Michael Atherton has termed Root’s innings as ‘innings of his life’. “What matters to him more than anything, is scoring crucial runs at a critical time. He was in for the 16th ball of the innings, at 5-2, so it could have gone horribly wrong. With Mitchell Starc knocking back (Ben) Duckett and (Ollie) Pope for ducks, all those memories of Perth flooding back, but then …