Cricket News Desk. Rahul Dravid of India and Brian Lara of West Indies are among the greatest batsmen of Test cricket. These great players made such records in Test cricket that breaking them is no game. But now this 33-year-old batsman is on the verge of breaking the record of these two great cricketers in the next few hours. Actually, the second Test match of the series between England and West Indies has started. This match is being played at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. If England's experienced batsman Joe Root plays in this match, he will break a big Test record of Dravid and Lara.
If Lara's record is on the root mark
In this second Test match, West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl. This means that England is batting first. Joe Root is very close to surpassing West Indies batsman Brian Lara in terms of most Test runs. However, he needs 150 runs for this. With this run, he will also leave behind Chandrapaul (11867 runs). Brian Lara has scored 11953 runs in his Test career. Before this match, Joe Root has scored 11804 runs in 258 innings of 141 Tests.
In this case, he can surpass Dravid
Not only Brian Lara, Root also has a chance to overtake Indian legend Rahul Dravid. For this, it is necessary that Root gets a chance to bat in both innings and it is also necessary to score a half-century in both innings. Actually, Root can overtake Dravid in terms of the number of half-centuries in Tests. Rahul Dravid has scored 63 half-centuries in Tests. Along with this, Joe Root has 62 half-centuries in Tests. With half-centuries in both innings of this match, he will have 64 half-centuries in Tests. In this case, he will also surpass the great Alan Border, who has 63 half-centuries to his name.
Playing XI of both teams for the second test
England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Mark Wood, Shoaib Bashir.
West Indies: Kraigg Brathwaite (captain), Mickle Lewis, Kirk McKenzie, Alec Athanasius, Kavem Hodge, Jason Holder, Joshua Da Silva (wicketkeeper), Alzari Joseph, Kevin Sinclair, Shamar Joseph, Jayden Seales.
