England national cricket team batsman Joe Root has achieved a huge feat in the history of Test cricket. The top-order batsman has surpassed Kumar Sangakkara and become the sixth-highest run-scorer of all time in the longest format of the game, with over 12,400 runs to his name.
English batsman Joe Root achieved the feat in the second innings of the third day of the ongoing third Test against the Sri Lanka national cricket team. The final game of the three-match Test series between the teams will be held at the Kennington Oval in London.
Joe Root did not have a great performance with the bat in the second innings for England. But the right-handed bowler made sure he achieved a great feat in Test cricket. He surpassed Kumar Sangakkara when he scored his 12401st run in the longest format of the game.
Joe Root has become a beast in Test cricket. The right-handed bowler has been breaking records of entertainment in the longest format of the game. The right-handed bowler, who is currently the number one batsman in the format, has been scoring loads of runs for the English team.
Root is currently the best Test batsman. The batsman in the current summer has been nothing short of exceptional as he has been hitting centuries after centuries. He surpassed Alastair Cook’s record for the most Test centuries by an England player.
In the last match against Sri Lanka, Joe Root put in a sensational performance, scoring two centuries. The right-hander hit 143 runs in the first innings and then in the second innings he scored 103 runs in 121 balls, setting a new record for the most hundreds by an England player in Test cricket.
Joe Root is on the verge of overtaking Alastair Cook in terms of most Test runs.
Joe Root is also on the verge of overtaking Alastair Cook in terms of the most Test runs for England. The England great is at fifth place in the table with 12472 runs to his name. With the kind of form he has been going through, it won’t be a surprise if he ends up breaking even Sachin Tendulkar’s record of the most Test runs in the history of the game.
Most runs in Test cricket
15921 – Sachin Tendulkar13378 – Ricky Ponting13289 – Jacques Kallis13288 – Rahul Dravid12472 – Alastair Cook12402 – Joe Root12400 – Kumar Sangakkara
Coming into the Test match, the hands of the game were evenly balanced. England, asked to bat first because of captain Ollie Pope’s 154 and Ben Duckett’s 84, posted a total of 325 runs on the board. They started off pretty well with the ball too, leaving Sri Lanka in 93/5.
But Dhananjaya de Silva (69) and the in-form Kamindu Mendis (64) frustrated England with an unbroken hundred-run partnership on the second day, helping the team score 263 runs. However, England performed poorly with the bat in the second innings, being bowled out for 156 runs.
Sri Lanka set a target of 218 runs to chase and started off quite well. Though Dimuth Karunaratne fell early, Pathum Nissanka has kept his team in contention. He, along with Kusal Mendis, is playing positive cricket and would want to help the team win and end the series on a high.
