Joe Root
Joe Root Test Runs: England’s star batsman Joe Root has been in excellent form for some time now and a lot of runs are coming from his bat. Since the year 2020, he is seen in a different rhythm in Test cricket and is scoring runs against every opposing team. Root is the player who has scored the most centuries in Test cricket for England. In the second Test match against Sri Lanka, he scored centuries in both innings and played an important role in England’s victory. Now in the third Test, he could not play a big innings, but he has definitely left behind Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara.
He became the sixth highest run scorer in Test cricket
Joe Root was out after scoring 13 runs in the first innings and 12 runs in the second innings of the third Test match against Sri Lanka. In this way, he scored a total of 25 runs in the match. With this, he has surpassed Kumar Sangakkara in terms of scoring the most runs in Test cricket. Root now has 12402 Test runs. Sangakkara has 12400 Test runs to his name. Root has now become the sixth highest run scorer in Test cricket.
Highest run scorer in Test cricket:
Sachin Tendulkar – 15921 runs
Ricky Ponting – 13378 runs
Jacques Kallis – 13289 runs
Rahul Dravid – 13288 runs
Alastair Cook – 12472 runs
Joe Root- 12400 runs
Joe Root has scored 34 centuries in Test cricket
Joe Root is just 33 years old. He made his Test debut for England in 2012. Since then, he has been an important part of England’s batting order. He has scored 12377 runs in 145 Test matches for the England team so far, which includes 34 centuries and 64 half-centuries. He has scored 6522 runs in ODI cricket.
England had already taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the Test series against Sri Lanka. In the third Test match, England batted first and scored 325 runs. After this, the Sri Lankan team was able to score 263 runs in the second innings. On the basis of the first innings, England got a lead of 63 runs. But in the second innings, England’s batsmen have not been able to perform well. England has lost 7 wickets for 84 runs. Its total lead so far has been only 146 runs.
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