Joe Root becomes the first player in WTC to achieve this feat

On Tuesday (October 8), English cricketer Joe Root, the current number one batter in the ICC Test Rankings, made an astonishing achievement by becoming the only batter in the history of Test cricket to score 5000 runs in the ongoing World Test Championship (WTC) cycle. The 33-year-old right-handed batter perform this achievement in the last session of 2nd day’s play of ongoing first test match between pakistan and england played at multan cricket cricket ground. Root Wrapping up the second day, scored 32 runs off 54 balls, while hitting two fours in his innings so far.

Root who was playing the Pakistan-England Test series needed only 27 runs more to touch the 5000 run milestone and he did that in the very first match.Presently he has to his credit 5005 runs from 59 played so far. In 45 WTC matches Marnus Labuschagne of Australia occupies the second position with 3904 runs and his countrymate Steve Smith for 3486 runs scored in the same number of matches comes after him.

Joe Root (England) – 5005*

Marnus Labuschagne (Australia) – 3904

Steve Smith (Australia) – 3486

Ben Stokes (England) – 3101

Babar Azam (Pakistan) – 2755

Root who holds the record for the most runs in the history of WTC has 12434 runs and in his current test match against pakistan if he scores at least 39 runs in the first innings then he will be the highest run-scorer in Test matches for England beating Alastair Cook’s record.

England’s Anne is an ex-captain. His match between England and the rest of the world saw Cook preserve his Test match return of 12472 runs in 161 Test matches played for England from 2006 to 2018.

If Root gets a hundred in the ongoing Test, he will surpass the achievements of Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, Mahela Jayawardene, and Younis Khan to become the sixth batter ever to score 35 or more Test centuries in history. The record for most Test hundreds is held by Sachin Tendulkar (51 in 200 tests) while the next after him are Jacques Kallis (45), Ricky Ponting (41), Kumar Sangakkara (38) and Rahul Dravid (36)

Moreover, a total of 102 runs in the first Test at Multan Cricket Stadium will also assist the former England skipper in becoming the first batter in the world to accumulate a minimum of 1500 runs in all three editions of the World Test Championship.