Today, on 27 July, England’s experienced batsman Joe Root has surpassed former West Indies captain Brian Lara in terms of runs in Test cricket. Let us tell you, Joe Root achieved this great feat during the first session of the second day of the third Test being played between England and West Indies in Birmingham.

Brian Lara scored 11,953 runs in 232 innings of 131 matches in his international cricketing career. Joe Root has surpassed him in 261 innings of his 143 tests. Joe Root has reached the seventh position in the list of players who have scored the most runs in Test cricket. Now only Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis, Rahul Dravid, Alastair Cook and Kumar Sangakkara are ahead of him.

Joe Root started the second day of the ongoing third Test match with two runs. He needed just 12 more runs to break Brian Lara’s record. He achieved this feat on the last ball of the sixth over of the day.

Joe Root became the highest run scorer for England at Edgbaston

Let us tell you, English batsman Joe Root has become the highest run scorer at Edgbaston. He has completely broken Cook’s record of 869 runs. England is leading 2-0 in this 3 match Test series. While on one hand all the players from England have performed very well so far, the West Indies players have failed to make a mark in this series.

England won the first test match played at Lord’s while the hosts won the second test as well. England had a very bad start in the third test being played at the moment but the team is in a great position right now and if the team’s batsmen perform well then they can win this match as well. In their first innings of the third test, West Indies have scored 282 runs after losing all wickets. The second day of the game has started and England will definitely want to put pressure on West Indies on this day.