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Joe Root has scored 64 half centuries in his Test career.
England defeated Sri Lanka by five wickets in the first Test match. Star batsman Joe Root played an important role in England’s victory. With this victory, the hosts have taken a 1-0 lead in the two-Test match series. Sri Lanka had set a target of 205 runs for the English team to win in the Manchester Test, at one point the host team was struggling while chasing this score, then Joe Root led the team to victory by playing an unbeaten innings of 62 runs in 128 balls.
Joe Root made two big records on the basis of his innings. With these 62 runs, Joe Root has reached the third position in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs in the fourth innings of Test cricket after Sachin Tendulkar, Alastair Cook and Graeme Smith. In this matter, he has surpassed India’s Rahul Dravid and West Indies’ Shivnarine Chanderpaul. These two legends had scored 1580 and 1575 runs respectively in the fourth innings during their careers.
Joe Root made many big records in the first test against Sri Lanka
Now Joe Root has reached the fourth position in this list with 1589 runs. Joe Root’s eyes will now be on the world record of Sachin Tendulkar who is at the first position in this list with 1625 runs. Now there is only a difference of 36 runs between Sachin Tendulkar and Joe Root.
This was Joe Root’s 64th half-century in Test cricket and his 96th 50+ score overall. Root has equalled Chandrapaul in terms of scoring the most 50+ scores in Test cricket. This West Indies legend has also played 50+ runs innings 96 times in Test cricket. Sachin Tendulkar tops this list with 119 scores of more than fifty.
With this, Joe Root has also surpassed Rahul Dravid in the list of batsmen who have scored the most half-centuries in the history of Test cricket. Joe Root has reached the third position with 64 half-centuries, while Dravid had scored 63 half-centuries in his Test career. Here too Sachin Tendulkar is on top.
Batsmen with most 50+ scores in Test cricket-
Sachin Tendulkar – 119
Jacques Kallis- 103
Ricky Ponting- 103
Rahul Dravid- 99
Joe Root- 96
Shivnarine Chanderpaul- 96
Batsmen who scored the most runs in the fourth innings of Test cricket
Sachin Tendulkar – 1625
Alastair Cook – 1611
Graeme Smith – 1611
Joe Root – 1589
Shivnarine Chanderpaul – 1580
Rahul Dravid – 1575
