Joe Root: The England cricket team is currently playing a three-Test series with Pakistan and its first Test match is being played at the Multan Cricket Stadium, where the pitch is absolutely flat. Every batsman is wreaking havoc on this flat pitch and one of those batsmen is Joe Root.
England cricket team’s star batsman Joe Root has shown a very brilliant performance in this match and he has scored 176 runs at this time. With this excellent innings against Pakistan, he has made the record of scoring the most runs in Test cricket. So let’s know how many runs Joe Root has scored so far in test cricket.
Joe Root created history
Let us tell you that Joe Root has become the first batsman of England to score the most runs in Test cricket. He has captured the number one position by defeating former England captain Alastair Cook. Joe Root has scored 12578 runs in 147 matches so far. Former English captain Alastair Cook had set a record of scoring 12472 runs in 161 matches.
Not only this, Joe Root has also entered the list of the world’s top 5 players who scored the most runs in Test cricket by scoring 176 runs in this match and very soon he can reach number one by defeating many other players. It is known that at present the record of scoring the most runs in Test cricket is registered in the name of Sachin Tendulkar, who has scored 15921 runs. Sachin has scored these runs in 200 matches.
Talking about Joe Root’s Test career, so far a total of 35 centuries and 64 half-centuries have been seen from his bat in 147 matches. Now it will also be seen how many runs he scores in this ongoing Test match against Pakistan and whether he will be able to complete his 200 runs.
Talking about the first test match between Pakistan and England, the Pakistan team has scored 556 runs in the first innings of this match. In its first innings, the England cricket team has so far scored 492 runs at the loss of three wickets. After the end of the third day’s play, the English team is still behind by 64 runs. In such a situation, it will have to be seen how the English team performs on the fourth day of this match.
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