New Delhi, July 21 (IANS). Former England captain Joe Root has reached the 8th position in terms of scoring the most runs in Test cricket. He achieved this feat in the second match of the ongoing home Test series against West Indies. Root scored only 14 runs in the first innings of the Test match being held in Nottingham, but he has scored a half-century in the second innings.
Joe Root has surpassed West Indies legend Shivnarine Chanderpaul. Chanderpaul had scored 11867 runs in 164 Test matches at an average of 51.37. Root has broken this record in just 142 matches and has scored 11,869 runs so far, in which his average is 49.87.
There are now 7 batsmen above Joe Root in Test cricket who have scored more runs than him. West Indies' Brian Lara is at the 7th position in this case, he has scored 11953 runs in 131 Test matches with an average of 52.89. Root's next target will be to break this record. However, it is still very difficult to break Lara's record of highest score of 400 runs not out.
Next is Sri Lanka's left-handed wicketkeeper batsman Kumar Sangakkara, who is in sixth place. Sangakkara has scored 12,400 runs in 134 Test matches at an average of 57.41. His highest score during this period was 319.
Joe Root's former teammate and former English cricket captain Alastair Cook is at number 5. Opening batsman Cook has scored 12,472 runs in 161 Test matches at an average of 45.35 with a highest score of 294 runs.
India's Rahul Dravid is fourth on the all-time Test run-scorer list with 13,288 runs in 164 matches at an average of 52.31 with a highest score of 270.
South African veteran former all-rounder Jacques Kallis is at number three with 13,289 runs in 166 matches at an average of 55.37 with a highest score of 224.
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting is at number two, having scored 13,378 runs. A right-handed batsman, Ponting has scored in 168 matches, with an average of 51.85 and a highest run score of 257.
India's greatest batsman Sachin Tendulkar has scored 15,921 runs in 200 Test matches, and he is number one in this list. Sachin holds this record with an average of 53.79 and a highest score of 248 not out.
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