will Joe root break Sachin record

[Gollum]

14 minutes ago, New guy said:

Sri lankans and their hatred of Sachin, lol. 

He is Indian dude, from Tamil Nadu. Just messing with you guys.

[Praveen 06]

35 minutes ago, New guy said:

Sachin averages more overseas, he averaged 65 in England in his prime and at retirement he averaged 54 in England which is 5 more than roots career average at his prime today.

England mediocre team in 90s

Edited July 28 by Praveen 06

[New guy]

21 minutes ago, Praveen 06 said:

England mediocre team in 90s

Ah, ok. So what's the excuse for root not even averaging 50 today in his prime? 

[New guy]

23 minutes ago, Gollum said:

He is Indian dude, from Tamil Nadu. Just messing with you guys.

I have always called him Sri Lankan from day 1. Same thing as people calling laalo Pakistani. 

[Praveen 06]

1 minute ago, New guy said:

Ah, ok. So what's the excuse for root not even averaging 50 today in his prime? 

I didn't say root better batsman than sachin. 

[Gollum]

Root not in Sachin class but definitely an ATG. 

[Lone Wolf]

Sanga on Root surpassing him and Potentially Sachin

https://youtu.be/6kfcghXmqfQ?si=IPzJCyT9ZXNOUaoY

 

[Real McCoy]

5 hours ago, New guy said:

Ah, ok. So what's the excuse for root not even averaging 50 today in his prime? 

 

because he plays against aussie and indian bowlers

[Lord]

After a certain number of Tests, average and performance in all conditions matter much more than just runs. Steve Smith will remain way above Root as Test batter.

[Ultimate_Game]

11 minutes ago, Lord said:

After a certain number of Tests, average and performance in all conditions matter much more than just runs. Steve Smith will remain way above Root as Test batter.

 

Steve Smith is the best batsman of this generation. Almost an immovable object and always difficult to get out. Out of the Big 4 of this generation it is Smith > Kohli > Root > Williamson.

 

Root can never be in the top 2 with that atrocious record in Aus. As for Williamson, he simply hasn't done as much as the others.

[Ultimate_Game]

13 hours ago, ungboysj said:

What a joke

Dravid is most overrated bat of all time

 

Root is a matchwinner

 

Fact is batsman played slowly in 90s in tests esp against good bowlers so lower average for bowlers

 

Further india had rellay flat tracks during Sachin to pump Indian batting averages

 

Root is much better than Dravid

 

 

If you're comparing Tendulkar, Root and Dravid, it's SRT >> Root > Dravid.

 

Dravid has had a couple of knocks such as that famous knock against Aus supporting Laxman's 281, and his knock against Aus in Adelaide where Agarkar's 6-fer won us the tourney. But Dravid mostly played a second fiddle to Laxman or Tendulkar his entire career.

 

In ODIs Dravid as a batsman was never a difference maker but his true utility was when Ganguly played him as a wkt keeper. He was way better than other wkt keeper-batsmen we had at the time and lent us depth, balance and ability to bat till 7 before Dhoni came on to the scene and changed Indian cricket forever. We haven't looked back since from the dark days of keepers like Mongia, Ratra, Dahiya etc.

 

Overall, Root is closer to Dravid than Tendulkar in terms of impact, i.e. never the most impactful batsman but someone the team relied on.

[Lord]

5 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

If you're comparing Tendulkar, Root and Dravid, it's SRT >> Root > Dravid.

 

Dravid has had a couple of knocks such as that famous knock against Aus supporting Laxman's 281, and his knock against Aus in Adelaide where Agarkar's 6-fer won us the tourney. But Dravid mostly played a second fiddle to Laxman or Tendulkar his entire career.

 

In ODIs Dravid as a batsman was never a difference maker but his true utility was when Ganguly played him as a wkt keeper. He was way better than other wkt keeper-batsmen we had at the time and lent us depth, balance and ability to bat till 7 before Dhoni came on to the scene and changed Indian cricket forever. We haven't looked back since from the dark days of keepers like Mongia, Ratra, Dahiya etc.

 

Overall, Root is closer to Dravid than Tendulkar in terms of impact, i.e. never the most impactful batsman but someone the team relied on.

 

He was the crisis man at his peak. Would regularly save from collapses in both formats. Root is better though.

[Ultimate_Game]

1 minute ago, Lord said:

 

He was the crisis man at his peak. Would regularly save from collapses in both formats. Root is better though.

 

Yup. As I mentioned I would pick Root if I had to pick between Dravid and Root. The only thing which made Dravid competitive was his decision to keep wkts in ODIs. If he didn't do that he probably would've been sidelined much earlier.

 

Root is unfortunate he's playing in the era where English white-ball team redefined the way short format cricket should be played. Else Root would've played all the formats and he probably would've played across formats for most of the teams.

[Laaloo]

Won't get to bat in the 2nd innings

[Muloghonto]

3 hours ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

If you're comparing Tendulkar, Root and Dravid, it's SRT >> Root > Dravid.

 

Dravid has had a couple of knocks such as that famous knock against Aus supporting Laxman's 281, and his knock against Aus in Adelaide where Agarkar's 6-fer won us the tourney. But Dravid mostly played a second fiddle to Laxman or Tendulkar his entire career.

 

In ODIs Dravid as a batsman was never a difference maker but his true utility was when Ganguly played him as a wkt keeper. He was way better than other wkt keeper-batsmen we had at the time and lent us depth, balance and ability to bat till 7 before Dhoni came on to the scene and changed Indian cricket forever. We haven't looked back since from the dark days of keepers like Mongia, Ratra, Dahiya etc.

 

Overall, Root is closer to Dravid than Tendulkar in terms of impact, i.e. never the most impactful batsman but someone the team relied on.

 

Tendulkar >> Dravid >>>>>>>>> Root. 

Dravid averaged 57+ during his peak and faced far greater quality bowling than Root has done. Root is also a big fat zero in ODIs and T20s. 

[R!TTER]

Root's a soft player, failed consistently on some of our turners & also flat decks! Is a big fat f*** down under & generally bullies weak teams like no tomorrow 

[ungboysj]

Intellectual bankruptcy of posters here is so much

 

Just because you don't follow other teams doesn't mean all indians bats are best ever

 

DRavid was a nothing bat

 

He always needed Sachin or sehwag or laxman to win the match

 

He could very rarely put india in winning position by himself

 

Failed in south africa and Australia always other than 2003 

 

An AVG bat at best 

 

Root has already played many match winning innings in tests

 

Also he is better odi bat than Dravid . Only that he hasn't played much still has fabulous numbers 

[Majestic]

16 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

Root's a soft player, failed consistently on some of our turners & also flat decks! Is a big fat f*** down under & generally bullies weak teams like no tomorrow 

Yeah like he bullied Bumrah and Siraj in 2022 test series vs India.

 

Root - 750 runs

Rohit - 360 runs

KLR - 320 runs

 

Rest below 300.

[R!TTER]

In which tests? The series which we on 2-1 or the one where we didn't play the first choice 11 in that one off test 

[R!TTER]

Just a reminder, Root batted first in 12(13?) of those games 

 

Primary team England  or India

Opposition team England  or India

Host country India

Start of match date greater than or equal to 1 Jan 2010

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Ordered by batting average (descending)

Overall figures

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
YBK Jaiswal (IND)	2024-2024	5	9	1	712	214*	89.00	891	79.91	2	3	0	68	26
V Kohli (IND)	2012-2021	13	21	3	1015	235	56.38	1983	51.18	3	4	2	116	1
AN Cook (ENG)	2012-2016	9	18	1	931	190	54.76	2125	43.81	4	1	0	105	3
CA Pujara (IND)	2012-2021	13	21	2	972	206*	51.15	2026	47.97	4	2	1	117	2
RG Sharma (IND)	2021-2024	9	16	1	745	161	49.66	1218	61.16	3	2	0	91	12
JE Root (ENG)	2012-2024	15	30	2	1272	218	45.42	2511	50.65	3	6	0	124	5
Shubman Gill (IND)	2021-2024	9	16	2	571	110	40.78	977	58.44	2	3	4	60	14
R Ashwin (IND)	2012-2024	18	26	2	854	106	35.58	1673	51.04	1	6	2	103	5
Z Crawley (ENG)	2021-2024	7	14	0	474	79	33.85	725	65.37	0	5	2	65	6
BA Stokes (ENG)	2016-2024	14	28	1	747	128	27.66	1510	49.47	1	4	1	85	12