England cricket group star batter Joe Root scripted historical past by attaining a mammoth feat on Day 2 of the primary Check match towards Pakistan in Multan on Tuesday. Root grew to become the primary batter in historical past to attain 5000 runs within the World Check Championship (WTC) as he slammed 32 off 54 deliveries with the assistance of two fours. Root got here into the match needing 27 runs to realize the massive feat and he now has 5005 runs in 59 matches. Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne is second with 3904 runs whereas his compatriot Steve Smith occupies the third spot with 3484 runs.
Root can obtain one other big feat throughout the ongoing Check match as he’s simply 39 runs away from overtaking Alastair Prepare dinner as England’s top-scorer in Exams.
In the meantime, Root took a step nearer to matching Sachin Tendulkar’s elusive document for 1000-plus Check runs in most calendar years.
After Pakistan slammed a mammoth 556-run complete on the again of centuries from Salman Ali Agha (104*), Abdullah Shafique (102) and skipper Shan Masood (151)
Root stepped as much as regular guests ship after England misplaced stand-in skipper Ollie Pope to Naseem Shah early within the first innings. He approached every supply that got here his method with warning to make sure that England did not lose additional wickets after shedding Pope.
Whereas exercising warning, Root closely relied on rotating the strike, discovered the boundary rope twice and walked again unbeaten with a rating of 32(54).
Root, who has been tipped to go previous Sachin’s tally in red-ball cricket, returned to the dressing room after crossing 1,000 Check runs in 2024. This was the fifth calendar 12 months when the 33-year-old managed to cross the 1,000-run mark in Check cricket.
He simply must put up one other calendar 12 months the place he hits the 1,000 Check runs mark to go degree with ‘Grasp Blaster’ Sachin Tendulkar.
Sachin at the moment sits on the summit with a whopping tally of six calendar years wherein he garnered 1000-plus Check runs.
With a tally of 5, Root is now degree with Brian Lara, Matthew Hayden, Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara and Alastair Prepare dinner for scoring 1000-plus Check runs in most calendar years.
(With ANI inputs)
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