Can Joe Root consider Root to be the great batsman of Test cricket?

Samira Vishwas

Tezzbuzz|30-07-2025

Main point:

The current run machine of the English cricket team, which has emerged as a different batsman, has become so deep in Test cricket that it is not easy for the rest of the batsmen to shake these roots.

Delhi: There is no shortage of greatest batsmen in cricket history. Test cricket began in 1877, after which this journey has completed its 148 years so far. In this historic journey, one to one veteran batsman came and managed to establish his dominance. Looking at the list of these legends batsmen, batsmen like Sir Don Bradman to Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Bryan Lara, Kumar Sangakkara, Rahul Dravid, Jack Kallis were batsmen.

Joe has emerged as the best in root test

These great batsmen left a tremendous impact in Test cricket. But, among all this, England star batsman Joe Root is getting a different domination. The current run machine of the English cricket team, which has emerged as a different batsman, has become so deep in Test cricket that it is not easy for the rest of the batsmen to shake these roots.

Those who are breaking the route, one after the other

Among the batsmen included in Fab-4, a name which routes are beaten by all their chilli rivers and remain number-1. Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson and Steve Smith have been completely launched by this British and today they are setting a new record in every innings of every match. Due to the rain of this records, Master-Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has also collapsed many records and at the same time there is a danger of breaking of some more big records.

In the list of scoring the most runs, English star is now second place

Joe Root completed another century in the Manchester Test match against India. With this hundreds, he has left many veterans behind in one stroke. While he equaled the centuries of former Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara by scoring a 38th century of his career, this Englishman has now come second after Sachin Tendulkar in Test cricket by defeating Rahul Dravid, Jack Kallis and Ricky Ponting one by one in terms of most runs. So can Joe Root now be considered the best batsman in Test cricket or not? This is a very big and special question.

Root is about 2500 runs away from Sachin Tendulkar’s record

England’s best batsman Joe Root, who has entered Test cricket in 2012, has scored 13409 runs in 286 innings of 157 Tests in this format so far with an impressive average of 51.17. This veteran batsman of England has completed 38 centuries, so he has also played 66 half -century innings. After this, now Sachin Tendulkar is 2512 runs away from crossing the highest run (15921) in the route test. Given the form in which the route is going on, it can be believed that he can cross this peak of Sachin Tendulkar’s runs.

Since 2021, who have hit the route 21 Test centuries

In the Test cricket format, Joe Root has shown the form that has shown the form for the last about 5 years, it is rarely seen. It cannot be considered easy to continue such form for so long. The British batsman has played 60 Test matches against India till the Manchester Test match since 2021. In this, he has scored 21 centuries in 109 innings. Apart from this, he has also hit 17 fifty. If we talk before that, Joe Root scored only 17 centuries in 97 Test matches from 2012 to 2020. But, then since 2021, he has become a century machine in Tests and has put a shower of centuries.

Joe Root has scored fifty or more in the last 60 Test matches in which he has completed a century 21 times. That is, he has also done a lot of amazing to convert his fifty into a century. If we look at the runs of the route, he has scored 5586 runs in these 60 Test matches at an average of 56.42.

The best batsman can be considered by looking at the impressive Test record

Root has just played 43 Test matches with Sachin. At the same time, he is 34 years old at the moment and if he is playing all these things, it can be believed that he can play at least 3-4 years and cricket. And the most important thing is that England play more than 20 Test matches in a WTC cycle. If the route of the WTC of at least 2029 plays the route, then it is very high that he can break Sachin Tendulkar’s record of the highest runs. And he can be considered the best batsman of Test cricket.