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Joe Root has overtaken Sir Alastair Cook to go England's highest Test run-scorer of each time.
Root eclipsed Cook's tally of 12,472 Test runs erstwhile helium deed an elegant consecutive thrust backmost past Aamer Jamal to scope 71 against Pakistan connected time 3 of the archetypal Test successful Multan.
The 33-year-old, who is playing successful his 147th Test, has done it successful 14 Tests less than Cook, and present sits 5th connected the all-time list.
He made his Test debut against India successful Nagpur successful 2012 and since past has deed 34 Test centuries, with a apical people of 254 against Pakistan.
Sheffield-born Root, who captained England successful a grounds 64 Tests, is present lone down India's Rahul Dravid, South Africa's Jacques Kallis, Australia's Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar, besides of India.
The legendary Tendulkar, who played successful 200 Tests, tops the database with 15,921 runs, but Root could eclipse that people if helium continues successful the aforesaid vein of signifier implicit the adjacent fewer years.
The Yorkshire right-hander is successful immoderate of the champion signifier of his vocation - averaging 61 since the opening of 2023.
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