Joe Root became the 14th player in cricket history to achieve 10,000 runs in Test cricket, and the second England player to do so.
On the fourth day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lords, Root accomplished the unbelievable accomplishment. He completed a brace by nudging the ball off Tim Southee to deep square to reach a double milestone – his 26th Test century and 10,000 Test runs. It was his first century in a Test innings’ fourth innings.
He also became the second Englishman after Alastair Cook to reach 10,000 Test runs, and is on his way to overtaking him as England’s all-time leading run scorer. Root and Cook were exactly the same age when they arrived at the monument – 31 years and 157 days old.
Root became the 14th player to surpass 10,000 runs, and the first since Younis Khan broke the milestone during the Test series against the West Indies in 2017.
Sunil Gavaskar of India was the first player to accomplish the milestone in 1987, followed by Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis, Mahela Jayawardena, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Kumar Sangakkara, Alastair Cook, Yonis Khan, and now Joe Root.
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