"We'll call it even" - Starc praises 'fantastic' Root after maiden century in Australia - video Dailymotion

Mitchell Starc joked he hopes people give Joe Root stick for moaning about the pink ball after his 135 not out

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00:01I had that edge early on, fall a bit short and then got away with it.

00:05No, I mean, I know he was...

00:07I hope you guys give him some stick.

00:09You've been nailing me about 14 pink ball games that I still don't like it.

00:13And he was whinging about a pink ball test and scored 100.

00:16So I hope you give him as much stick.

00:18But no, he's someone with that record.

00:22You know, he certainly...

00:24Well, I think he scored a lot of 50s in Australia

00:26and I'm sure he'd be relieved to get that 100.

00:29He played fantastically well today and assessed the conditions,

00:33sucked up some pressure and got the result by the end of the day.

00:36So, yeah, he played fantastically well.

00:39And I, you know, came across Joe when we both played for Yorkshire

00:42and had a lot of good battles there.

00:44And he's won a few of them and I've won a few.

00:47And today we've both got some runs in wickets.

00:50So, call it even today.