Joe Root Breaks Sachin Tendulkar Record, Even though Joe Root could not play a big innings in the first innings of the Oval Test against India, but still he took a historic record. In this case, he has also left Sachin Tendulkar behind. Along with this, Root has also achieved another major achievement in the Test against India.
England star batsman Joe Root scored just 29 runs in the first innings of the fifth and last Test match being played against India on Friday, August 1, 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 (any home ground). He has scored 7220 runs in England so far, while Tendulkar scored 7216 runs in India. That is, Root has left behind the master blaster in terms of scoring runs on home grounds. Now in this case there are Ricky Potting (7578 runs, Australia) ahead of him.
Most runs on home ground in Test (Top-5):
- 7578 – Ricky Ponting (Australia)
- 7220 – Joe Root (England)
- 7216 – Sachin Tendulkar (India)
- 7167 – Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka)
- 7035 – Jacques Kallis (South Africa)
Not only this, Root has also completed 2000 runs in Tests in England against India, which is the highest run by any batsman in the same country against India. This stability of Joe Root is not new. He made his Test debut in 2012 and has scored on all kinds of pitches since then, whether it is swing, seam or slow turn.
Now he has a total of 13,438 runs in his name in Test cricket, with an average of over 51, including 38 centuries and 66 half -centuries.
