Image Source : TWITTER/@ENGLANDCRICKET Joe Root
England captain Joe Root went previous former opener Geoffrey Boycott on the record of high run-getters for England right here on Saturday. Root, who was unbeaten on 67 after the tip of the second day of the second Test towards Sri Lanka, has moved to eight,119 runs and is now 5 runs away from Boycott, who retired a very long time in the past.
Root, who’s now the sixth highest run-getter for England, might simply transfer to 3rd spot by the point England’s four-Test tour of India ends in March. He wants 345 extra runs to topple Alec Stewart from the third place.
Former England captain Alastair Cook is the all-time highest run-getter for England with 12,472 Test runs towards his identify. He is adopted by Graham Gooch, who has 8,900 runs. Alec Stewart (8,463), David Gower (8,231) and Kevin Pietersen (8,181) are the others forward of Root.
This was Root’s fiftieth Test half-century. He now has 296 runs thus far within the ongoing Test collection.
