Brad Hogg on who will break Sachin Tendulkar’s Test runs record runs: ‘Don’t think Virat is going to get there…Joe Root is on the move”

“Joe Root has 146 Test matches with 12,000 runs. Sachin Tendulkar made astir 16,000 runs successful 200 Test matches. That’s 4,000 runs successful 66 Tests. I deliberation Joe Root tin spell adjacent to toppling that,” helium added. “Watch out, Joe Root is connected the determination to bushed Sachin Tendulkar. I deliberation softly he’ll person that successful the backmost of his caput to effort and topple that small unsocial stat.”

However, Root himself erstwhile asked astir the anticipation of crossing Tendulkar, emphasized the value of scoring runs for teams to triumph alternatively than idiosyncratic milestones. “I conscionable privation to play, and try, and bash my spot for the squad and people the runs arsenic galore arsenic I tin and spot wherever we get to. But there’s nary amended feeling I mean, it’s astonishing erstwhile you people 100, you’d beryllium lying if you said it wasn’t,” said Root speaking connected a video released by England Cricket earlier.

While Adam Gilchrist has opted for Virat Kohli successful some white-ball formats implicit Root arsenic a amended batter, erstwhile it came to the accepted format the erstwhile Australia subordinate picked Root implicit Kohli fixed the English batter’s signifier successful the past fewer years. “In the past abbreviated while. Over a agelong period, Joe Root’s stats are…, good he’s the champion England has ever had,” Gilchrist said connected Club Prairie Fire Podcast.