Over the past few years, Joe Root has been constantly proving himself as to why he is England’s greatest batsman ever. Not only that, but he is also putting up a really strong case for being this Generation’s Best Test Batsman. Breaking records and scoring 100s for fun, Joe Root recently crossed a Milestone that created history for England.
During Day 3 of the Third Test in Pakistan, Joe Root went past Sir Alastair Cook to become England’s top run-scorer in Test Cricket. With a score of 176* (277) at stumps on day 3 also scoring 17 boundaries in the process, Joe Root ended the day with 19,993 runs in International Cricket to his name. Falling just 7 runs shy of completing 20,000 runs in International Cricket.
Since the inception of the World Test Championship in 2019, Joe Root has scored a mammoth of 5,149 runs also becoming the first player to score 5,000 runs in the WTC. This includes his incredible 17 centuries during this phase and 20 half centuries in this competition alone at an average of 53.08.
Joe Root has now scored, 12,578 International Test runs that’s about 106 runs more than Sir Alastair Cook’s previous record of 12,472 runs. Joe Root’s discography of Test Cricket also includes 35 Test Centuries and 64 Fifties. And currently puts him in 5th place in the list of Highest Run Scorers in Test Cricket History.
Still just 33 years old, barring any long-term injuries and early retirement decisions as Sir Alastair Cook did, Joe Root has at least 4-5 years of Test Cricket ahead of him. That’s more than enough time to overtake everyone else ahead of him in the Test Cricket Most Run-Getter’s list and possibly topple the ‘God Of Cricket’ from the Number 1 spot. But first, he’ll have to get through the likes of Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis, and Rahul Dravid.
Only then can he aim to break Sachin Tendulkar’s dominant record of 15,921 runs in Test Cricket. But the way Joe Root has been batting for the past 4-5 years, it feels as if it is only a matter of time before the Best Test Batsman of this Generation, becomes the Best Test Batsman of All Time.
