Joe Root Breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s Big Record: England’s star batsman Joe Root scored just 29 runs in the first innings of the fifth and final Test match being played against India at the Oval on Friday, 1 August, but during this time he broke a record that was in the name of Sachin Tendulkar for years.
Joe Root has now become the second batsman to score the most Test runs in England (at a home ground). He has scored 7220 runs in England so far, while Tendulkar had scored 7216 runs in India. That is, Root has left the Master Blaster behind in terms of scoring runs on home grounds. Now Ricky Ponting (7578 runs, Australia) is ahead of him in this matter.
Most runs on home ground in Tests (Top-5):
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7578 – Ricky Ponting (Australia)
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7220* – Joe Root (England)
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7216 – Sachin Tendulkar (India)
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7167 – Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka)
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7035 – Jacques Kallis (South Africa)
Not just that, Root has also completed 2000 runs in Tests against India in England which is the most runs scored by any batsman against India in a single country. This consistency of Joe Root is nothing new. He made his Test debut in 2012 and since then has scored runs on all types of pitches, be it swing, seam or slow turn.
Now Joe Root has a total of 13,438 runs to his name in Test cricket, at an average of over 51, which includes 38 centuries and 66 half-centuries..
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