Joe Root: The first match of the 3-match Test series between Pakistan and England is going on in Multan. ‘Joe Root’ has become the real Sultan by scoring a double century here.
Joe Root: England’s star batsman Joe Root is in the news at the moment. In the ongoing first Test in Multan, he created havoc with the bat and scored a double century. Root completed his century on the third day and created history by converting it into a double century on the fourth day. Root has made a record rain in Multan on the basis of this double century.
If we talk about the match, Pakistan had scored 556 runs in the first innings, in reply England had scored 607 runs after losing 3 wickets in the first session of the fourth day. At the crease, Joe Root is unbeaten on 232 runs while Harry Brook is unbeaten on 195 runs. Root has hit 15 fours so far in this innings, while Brook has hit 18 fours and 1 six.
Joe Root made these 10 special records in Multan Test
When Joe Root scored 27 runs in the Multan Test, he completed 5 thousand runs in the World Test Championship. He is the first batsman in the world to reach this figure. Joe Root has now become the highest run-scorer for England. In this matter, he defeated former captain Alastair Cook, who had scored (12,472) runs. Right-handed star batsman Joe Root has become the first batsman for England and the 13th in the world to score 20,000 runs in international cricket. Joe Root scored the sixth double century of his Test career. He has left behind Graeme Smith, Alastair Cook and Rahul Dravid in this matter. These players had scored 5-5 double centuries. Joe Root has equaled Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Younis Khan, Javed Miandad, Kane Williamson, Marvan Atapattu and Virender Sehwag in terms of scoring most double centuries in Test cricket. All of them have 6 double centuries to their name. Joe Root scored the third double century of his career in Asia. Before this he had done this feat on the soil of India and Sri Lanka. Joe Root has now become the second active player to score the most runs in international cricket, with 20001 runs in his name. Only Virat Kohli is ahead of him, who has scored 27041 runs. Joe Root has become the second batsman to score the most double centuries for England. Ahead of him is Wally Hammond, who has scored 7 double centuries. Joe Root has become the fourth batsman to complete 20 thousand international runs in the shortest innings. In this matter, he has left behind Ricky Ponting, who took 464 innings to reach this figure, while Root has done this feat in his 458th innings. At number one is Virat, who has completed 20 thousand runs in his 417th innings. Joe Root has also equaled Rahul Dravid’s record of scoring 50 or more runs 99 times in Tests. With this, he has come jointly third in the list of players who have scored the most 50+ scores in Test cricket. Ahead of him are Sachin Tendulkar (119), Jacques Kallis (103) and Ponting (103).