Joe Root broke Sachin Tendulkar’s world record, ruined 24 years of hard work

Joe Root Most Test Runs in Fourth Innings Sachin Tendulkar: England has defeated New Zealand by 8 wickets in the first test match. Joe Root has made a world record in this match played in Christchurch. Root has now become the batsman who has scored the most runs in the world in the fourth innings. Before the match against the Kiwi team, Joe Root had batted in the fourth innings 48 times, in which he had 1,607 runs in his name. Root has left Sachin Tendulkar behind in this list by scoring 23 runs in the fourth innings of the match against New Zealand.

Till now this record was in the name of India’s legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who, in his 24-year-old career, had scored 1,625 runs by batting 60 times while playing in the fourth innings. Now Joe Root has scored 1,630 runs while batting 49 times in the fourth innings. Let us tell you that apart from Root and Tendulkar, Graeme Smith and Alastair Cook are the two other batsmen who had scored more than 1,600 runs in the fourth innings in Test cricket history. This record is also historical and memorable because Root played 11 innings less than Tendulkar to achieve this feat.

Most runs in test cricket

This year, Joe Root had overtaken Alastair Cook in scoring the most runs in Test cricket for England. Cook had scored 12,472 runs in his career of 161 Test matches. On the other hand, Joe Root is at fifth place in this list, who currently has 12,777 runs. Now only Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid are above him in terms of scoring the most runs. Sachin Tendulkar scored the most runs in Test cricket, who scored 15,921 runs in 200 Test matches.

Joe Root has focused only on Test cricket for the last one year as he was last seen playing an ODI match during the 2023 World Cup. At the same time, after the year 2019, he has not played any T20 match for England.

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