England’s Joe Root Becomes First Batter in Cricket History to Achieve Sensational Feat

England’s star batter Joe Root created history on Day 2 of the first Test match against Pakistan in Multan on Tuesday.

Root became the first batter in cricket history to score 5000 runs in the World Test Championship (WTC). He scored 32 off 54 deliveries. He now has 5005 runs in 59 matches. Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne is second with 3904 runs while his team mate Steve Smith is in the third spot with 3484 runs.

In the ongoing Test match he can achieve another feat as he is just 39 runs away from surpassing Alastair Cook as England’s top-scorer in Tests.

Root is also getting closer to matching Sachin Tendulkar’s elusive record for 1000-plus Test runs in most calendar years.

This was the fifth calendar year when the 33-year-old managed to cross the 1,000-run mark in Test cricket. He needs to put up another calendar year where he hits the 1,000 Test runs mark to go level with ‘Master Blaster’ Sachin Tendulkar, who is at the peak with a whopping tally of six calendar years in which he scored 1000-plus Test runs.

With a tally of five, Root is now level with Brian Lara, Matthew Hayden, Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara and Alastair Cook for scoring 1000-plus Test runs in most calendar year.