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ENG vs NZ: Joe Root given HERO’S welcome in the England dressing room after spectacular knock, teammates congratulate on SPECIAL record – Watch Video

ENG vs NZ: Joe Root given HERO’S welcome in the England dressing room after spectacular knock, teammates congratulate on SPECIAL record – Watch Video

ENG vs NZ: Follow England vs New Zealand live updates – England’s man of the hour, Joe Root was given a hero’s welcome in the team dressing room at Lord’s for his spectacular performance in the first Test against New Zealand. Not only did he play a match-winning knock in this game, but he also reached […]

ENG vs NZ: Follow England vs New Zealand live updates – England’s man of the hour, Joe Root was given a hero’s welcome in the team dressing room at Lord’s for his spectacular performance in the first Test against New Zealand. Not only did he play a match-winning knock in this game, but he also reached a significant feat. Follow ENG vs NZ live updates, England vs New Zealand live updates on InsideSport.IN.

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Notably, Root played an incredible knock of unbeaten 115 runs from 170 deliveries, which helped England chase down the target set by the Kiwis. With this knock, he also became the second English cricketer to score 10,000+ runs in Test cricket, behind only Sir Alastair Cook.

ENG vs NZ: Joe Root given HERO’S welcome in the England dressing room after spectacular knock, teammates congratulate on SPECIAL record – Watch Video

What makes Root’s achievement even more special is that he is the first batter in Test history to complete 10,000 runs in less than 10 years. Besides that, among the current ‘Fab 4‘ of Root, Virat Kohli, Steve Smith and Babar Azam, the Englishman become the first player to attain five-figure runs tally in the longest format of the game.

Quite understandably, the English dressing room was ecstatic while welcoming their star after his match-winning knock. Meanwhile, as far as the game is concerned, the Three Lions had a good start to their new era, under the captaincy of Ben Stokes and the stewardship of Brendon McCullum.

ENG vs NZ: Joe Root given HERO’S welcome in the England dressing room after spectacular knock, teammates congratulate on SPECIAL record – Watch Video

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Joe Root become the first player among the current Fab 4 to sc ore 10,000+ Test runs

Though they were all out for 141 in the second innings and chased a big total of 277 runs in the second innings, McCullum’s men had the nerves to get over the line, thanks to Root’s magic. The former English Test skipper’s knock helped England go from 69/4 to 279/5.

Most runs in Test cricket:

Player Span Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 0
SR Tendulkar (INDIA) 1989-2013 200 329 33 15921 248* 53.78 51 68 14
RT Ponting (AUS) 1995-2012 168 287 29 13378 257 51.85 41 62 17
JH Kallis (ICC/SA) 1995-2013 166 280 40 13289 224 55.37 45 58 16
R Dravid (ICC/INDIA) 1996-2012 164 286 32 13288 270 52.31 36 63 8
AN Cook (ENG) 2006-2018 161 291 16 12472 294 45.35 33 57 9
KC Sangakkara (SL) 2000-2015 134 233 17 12400 319 57.40 38 52 11
BC Lara (ICC/WI) 1990-2006 131 232 6 11953 400* 52.88 34 48 17
S Chanderpaul (WI) 1994-2015 164 280 49 11867 203* 51.37 30 66 15
DPMD Jayawardene (SL) 1997-2014 149 252 15 11814 374 49.84 34 50 15
AR Border (AUS) 1978-1994 156 265 44 11174 205 50.56 27 63 11
SR Waugh (AUS) 1985-2004 168 260 46 10927 200 51.06 32 50 22
SM Gavaskar (INDIA) 1971-1987 125 214 16 10122 236* 51.12 34 45 12
Younis Khan (PAK) 2000-2017 118 213 19 10099 313 52.05 34 33 19
JE Root (ENG) 2012-2022 118 218 16 10015 254 49.57 26 53 11

 

ENG vs NZ: Joe Root given HERO’S welcome in the England dressing room after spectacular knock, teammates congratulate on SPECIAL record – Watch Video

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