IND vs Eng 4th Test | ‘Just to go to another now’: Ricky Ponting Back Joe Root to cross the all-time test run record of Sachin Tendulkar. Cricket news
Australian veteran Ricky Ponting has thrown his weight behind the route, eventually to receive Sachin Tendulkar as a leading run-scorer in Test history, called England’s recent feat “a great moment in history”.Root dazzled in Old Trafford, which scores a sublime 150 against India in the fourth Test of the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. With that innings, Root shifted Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis to the past, and finally ponted himself to become the second largest run-songs in Test history.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!The route now has 13,409 runs from 157 tests, only behind Tendulkar’s prestigious 15,921. A crowd of Old Trafford gave a standing ovation to the 34 -year -old as he had passed through Ponting’s Tally of 13,378.
Ponting, who was an on-air for Sky Sports, was shining in its praise: “Congratulations Joe Root. A great moment in history. The second on the table. Just one and now to go. About two and a half thousand runs are behind, but the way his career has gone in the last four or five years, it is not a reason that it cannot be the number.”
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The former Australia captain insisted on Route’s incredible form Post -30, given: “After being 30 years old, 25 Tests say everything about his mental ability to score hundreds.Ponting also said how the batting of the root is unaffected by the individual milestone: “He is not obsessed with the data or numbers. Like most of us, when you are playing, this is about winning the match. But when he eventually retirees, he looks back and turns back and looks very proud.He added further reference to his own career: “I didn’t even know how many runs I had when I finished. It did not inspire me, and it is clear that it is the same for Joe. But it is still an inheritance. And if he maintains 85 runs on an average, like he is, and plays another 20-30 tests, then he is within the Tendulkar mark.”His 38th in the latest hundred-testings of the root holds him in hundreds of list with Kumar Sangakkara. England, leading series 2–1, are in a commanding position, and the masterclass of the root can prove to be decisive again.
