Countdown to Joe Root breaking SRT's most Test run Tally

[Lone Wolf]

He is closer than ever & only 32 years old.  England slated to play around 45 tests in next 3 years alone. 

Only thing that can stop him if this Bazball destroys his impact & he turns into a cameo player

 

[nevada]

We should recall Sachin. He could outscore the runless Rahane. 

[Suhaan]

2 hours ago, nevada said:

We should recall Sachin. He could outscore the runless Rahane. 

And DisCount Pyas Bujhara

[Bigg Brother]

Still 4900 runs behind. It's like Rahane's whole career runs. 3 years means he should be scoring 1500+ every year. Cook retired when he wasn't even 35. So, can't say much about Root, although Root is in brilliant form unlike Cook who was scratchy post 2013-14 Ashes. Still, very long way to go..

[Stan AF]

He can surpass easily if ,& that's a big if if he stays injury free and continues his form

[sandeep]

These threads keep coming up everytime somebody gets within 4-5k runs, and people blindly extrapolate future performance. Whether its a Ponting, Cook, Root, whoever.  

[Lone Wolf]

1 hour ago, Bigg Brother said:

Still 4900 runs behind. It's like Rahane's whole career runs. 3 years means he should be scoring 1500+ every year. Cook retired when he wasn't even 35. So, can't say much about Root, although Root is in brilliant form unlike Cook who was scratchy post 2013-14 Ashes. Still, very long way to go..

Cook was never this Talented...  Root is probably second most talented player ever since Sachin to play the game with a flawless technique & vast array of shots. 

 

I think he will miss it...  But may crack 15k mark.  The Bazball in question will be his undoing.  I already have seen him miss 2-3 easy tons in Pak NZ & now here. 

Ashes will be interesting...  Obv a Poor Ashes can get to him like it did to Cook when he slumped into a rut

[Bigg Brother]

8 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Cook was never this Talented...  Root is probably second most talented player ever since Sachin to play the game with a flawless technique & vast array of shots. 

 

I think he will miss it...  But may crack 15k mark.  The Bazball in question will be his undoing.  I already have seen him miss 2-3 easy tons in Pak NZ & now here. 

Ashes will be interesting...  Obv a Poor Ashes can get to him like it did to Cook when he slumped into a rut

I think Cook was the most resilient test player I have ever seen. Classic test match player, at 28 he was churning runs like anything, it is scary how his career went downhill when he was only 29 and still ended up scoring 12k runs. Cook had to open in the toughest country to open the batting in test cricket. Root on the other hand has more shots in his armoury but had real conversion issues before 2021 but since then has been able to catch up with Smith in terms of scoring centuries and eventually more runs. 

 

I think Root will break the record of Sachin if he goes the Anderson way. No franchise cricket, no LOIs (He is anyway playing Odis only), then he has very good chance.

[Majestic]

 

3 hours ago, sandeep said:

These threads keep coming up everytime somebody gets within 4-5k runs, and people blindly extrapolate future performance. Whether its a Ponting, Cook, Root, whoever.  

The one aspect which strengthens Root case is that he is almost sureshot to end up as second highest run scorer of all-time. He is still doing well and except in Australian conditions, he has churned runs everywhere.

 

I still feel he too will fall short even though he has a better all round game to succeed in his 30s than Cook was which is why he should get to 14k runs for sure.

[Majestic]

Both Root and Tendulkar are also good 6th bowlers.

[Lone Wolf]

1 hour ago, Majestic said:

Both Root and Tendulkar are also good 6th bowlers.

Will be very interesting to see how he goes about in Bazball style vs Cummins his biggest nemesis in Ashes

[Lord]

8 hours ago, Stan AF said:

He can surpass easily if ,& that's a big if if he stays injury free and continues his form

Great prediction

[Jay]

13 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Will be very interesting to see how he goes about in Bazball style vs Cummins his biggest nemesis in Ashes

Can't play Cummins in England or Oz

Can't play hazlewood in both places either. 

Could never play Johnson either or Ryan Harris

 

Oz own him like a b----

 

He also struggles in India anytime we dish out turners. 

Jaddu and ash did a number after that first test which was flat as. 

 

Also thakur has a knack of owning him. He has a habit of getting out to all rounders. Got out to Watson a few times and CDG kept him in check too. 

 

He is still well ahead of coolie though. Make no mistake about it. 

[Stan AF]

10 hours ago, Lord said:

Great prediction

If he plays for the next 5 years he's definitely breaking it

[Lone Wolf]

3 hours ago, Jay said:

Can't play Cummins in England or Oz

Can't play hazlewood in both places either. 

Could never play Johnson either or Ryan Harris

 

Oz own him like a b----

 

He also struggles in India anytime we dish out turners. 

Jaddu and ash did a number after that first test which was flat as. 

 

Also thakur has a knack of owning him. He has a habit of getting out to all rounders. Got out to Watson a few times and CDG kept him in check too. 

 

He is still well ahead of coolie though. Make no mistake about it. 

He has owned Indian bowling in both ODIs & Tests...  

Cummins though has been completely all over him. 

He was literally 21-22 year old youngster when Johnson operated.  That Johnson version was terrifying for England & also SA. 

 

[Jay]

45 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

He has owned Indian bowling in both ODIs & Tests...  

Cummins though has been completely all over him. 

He was literally 21-22 year old youngster when Johnson operated.  That Johnson version was terrifying for England & also SA. 

 

When did he own indian bowling in India apart from flat pitches ? He never did. 2016 was. Joke. Flattest pitches od all time. Coolie scored 100s for fun. We won 4 0 btw. 

 

We saw his aukad vs India in 2022. He sucked big time outside that first match which was again a flat deck. 

 

Even in England he only played well on flat pitches. Any pitch with assistance he got bamboozled by bumrah or shardul. 

[Jay]

Make no mistake he is better and we'll ahead of coolie. Let me make that clear. But he will never be as good as Smith. Way ahead of Kane too. But just not Smith.

 

Infact I would say he is close to sachhu bhai who is a tier below Smith himself. 

[zen]

I am not sure who (apart from mostly quantity focused folks in places like India) would be interested in such “milestones” .

 

200 tests & 15,9xx runs, who cares! 
100 100s (a made up milestone), who cares 

43x wickets in 131 tests, who cares 

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I am not sure if even Joe Root cares!

[vvvslaxman]

Root may start focusing on T20 cricket in the coming years. Easy money there.

[Jay]

1 hour ago, zen said:

I am not sure who (apart from mostly quantity focused folks in places like India) would be interested in such “milestones” .

 

200 tests & 15,9xx runs, who cares! 
100 100s (a made up milestone), who cares 

43x wickets in 131 tests, who cares 

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I am not sure if even Joe Root cares!

Exactly. Only Indians care about records lol. Like who cares. What matters is who was the better match winner. 

 

I am not sure if sacchu bhai is better than root in terms of being a match winner although sacchu dint have the luxury to play with the best Asian fast bowling attack with the likes of bumrah shami ishant and sirsj etc.