Joe Root comes close to another world record of Sachin Tendulkar, is this record in danger?
Joe Root World Record: Joe Root is currently playing for his team England in the Test series against Pakistan. Joe Root is now at that stage where whenever he comes to the field to bat, there is some record waiting for him. Especially many records of Sachin Tendulkar have been broken in Test cricket and many more are in line. Meanwhile, on the basis of another short innings against Pakistan in Multan, he has come close to another world record of Sachin.
Joe Root completed 1000 test runs this year
Actually, Joe Root has scored more than 1000 runs in Test cricket this year. This is not the first time that Joe Root has done this. Before this they have managed to do this four more times. Now he has been included in the list of players who have scored more than 1000 Test runs in a year five times. However, India’s Sachin Tendulkar is the only batsman who has scored more than a thousand runs in Test cricket 6 times in a year. Now Joe Root has come close to Sachin Tendulkar. However, to match Sachin, he will have to wait for at least one more year from here.
These batsmen have also scored more than one thousand test runs in a year
The batsmen who have scored more than a thousand runs in Tests five times in a year are Brian Lara, Matthew Hayden, Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara and Alastair Cook. That is, after Alastair Cook, he is the second batsman from England who has done this. This is no small achievement for him and for England.
When did Sachin Tendulkar and Joe Root do this feat?
If we talk about Sachin Tendulkar, he is the only batsman in the world who has done this task six times. Sachin had scored more than one thousand Test runs in a year in the years 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008 and then in the year 2010. If we talk about Joe Root, he has already done this work in the years 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022 and now i.e. in 2024. Joe Root still has more Test matches this year, it remains to be seen how many more Test runs he manages to add to his account in the remaining matches.
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