Joe Root’s long wait for a Test century in Australia ended on Thursday, and the landmark brought unexpected relief for former Australian opener Matthew Hayden, who had publicly made a bold promise if Root failed to score a century in Australia on the tour. Hayden, who had wagered that he would " walk nude around the MCG " if Root failed to score a hundred this Ashes summer, congratulated the England batter soon after the milestone, calling it a moment he had been “literally” invested in. "Congratulations, mate, on a hundred in Australia. Took you a while, and there was no one that had more skin in the game than me, literally," Hayden said in a video posted by England Cricket on X. After 16 matches, 30 innings, and four tours spread across over a decade, Joe Root finally had his

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