Joe Root is England’s leading run scorer in Test as well as international cricket, and on Thursday (July 10), during the first day’s play of the third India-England Test at Lord’s, he entered his name in the record books by becoming the first English and overall fourth cricketer in the world to score 4000 runs in international cricket against India.
Root needed 33 runs on Thursday to join the 4000-run club against India, and he achieved the objective by hitting Mohammed Siraj for a four on the first ball of the 37th over.
Root, who is playing his 33rd Test for England against India this week at the Home of Cricket, has scored 2989 runs so far in Tests against India since making his debut on December 13, 2012, in Nagpur.
He has also played 25 ODIs against Men in Blue and, with the help of three centuries and four fifties, has amassed a total of 825 runs. In T20Is, Root has played seven matches against Men in Blue and in six innings scored 161 runs.
A total of three batters—Ricky Ponting of Australia and Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara (both from Sri Lanka)—have scored more runs in international cricket against India than Root.
