On the second day of the first Test match between Pakistan and England in Multan on Tuesday, England’s top batter Joe Root wrote history by accomplishing an incredible achievement.
On the second day of the first Test match between Pakistan and England in Multan on Tuesday, England’s top batter Joe Root wrote history by accomplishing an incredible achievement. Root hammered 32 off 54 deliveries, including two fours, to become the first batsman in history to score 5000 runs in the World Test Championship (WTC). With 5005 runs in 59 games, Root entered the game needing 27 runs to accomplish the incredible accomplishment. Steve Smith, another Australian, is in third place with 3484 runs, while Marnus Labuschagne is in second place with 3904 runs.
Root is only 39 runs away from surpassing Alastair Cook as England’s all-time leading Test scorer, which would be another incredible accomplishment during the current Test match.
In the meantime, Root moved one step closer to tying the coveted record held by Sachin Tendulkar of scoring more than 1000 runs in most calendar years.
Following hundreds from Salman Ali Agha (104*), Abdullah Shafique (102) and captain Shan Masood (151) to smash a massive 556-run total, Pakistan.
Early in the first innings, England lost stand-in captain Ollie Pope to Naseem Shah. Root came in to steady the ship for the visitors. In order to prevent England from losing more wickets after losing Pope, he approached every delivery that came his way cautiously.
With prudence, Root mostly depended on rotating the strike, twice finding the boundary rope and returning unbeaten with a score of 32(54).
Root, who is expected to surpass Sachin’s red-ball record, went back to the dressing room following his 1,000th Test run in 2024. The 33-year-old accomplished the feat of scoring 1,000 runs in Test cricket for the fifth time in his career.
To tie the record set by “Master Blaster” Sachin Tendulkar, he simply needs to record another calendar year in which he reaches the 1,000 Test run milestone.
With an incredible total of six calendar years in which he amassed more over a thousand Test runs, Sachin presently holds the top spot.
Root is currently tied for the most Test run total in most calendar years with five, along with Brian Lara, Matthew Hayden, Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara, and Alastair Cook.
