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International Cricket: Joe Root completed 10,000 Test runs in record time

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International Cricket: Joe Root completed 10,000 Test runs in record time

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International Cricket: Joe Root has a serious chance of breaking Sachin Tendulkar's all-time record for most Test runs while still only 31 years old -For more IPL and Best Cricket news follow 99Runs


He reached his 26th Test century and became only the 14th player to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket when he nicked Tim Southee for a couple in the 77th over of England's chase at Lord's.


Only nine other players have hit 10,000 runs in fewer at-bats than he did in 218. The fastest innings are 195, three less than Steve Waugh's 244 innings.


The fact that he created his debut early - once he was a few of weeks wanting his twenty-secondly second birthday - plus the number of looks at cricket England play, implies that whereas others have reached the landmark in fewer innings, Root is the fastest to 10,000 runs in terms of your time, and is that the joint-youngest too. Alastair Cook, the sole alternative Englishman on the list, was conjointly thirty-one years and 157 days recent once he reached the mark (though in terms of days, he was at some point.



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Root's trip to the milestone has been fraught with ups and downs, as is to be expected in a Test career that spans over a decade. After 64 Tests, he averaged 52.45 during the first five years of his career. After that, his average declined to 39.70 for the next three years, as was to be expected.


During that time, he only scored four hundred in 33 Tests; in fact, 2020 is the only calendar year in which he hasn't scored a century despite playing multiple Tests.


However, the floodgates have opened again since 2021, with 2192 runs at 56.20 in the last 21 Tests.


This, despite the Ashes series in 2021-22, in which he only averaged 32.20 in 10 innings.


Even more astonishing is his pace of hundreds: nine in 21 matches, or once per 2.3 Tests, compared to his lifetime average of one every 4.5.



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