Veteran England run-getter Joe Root said that he has no idea whether he would surpass batting legend Sachin Tendulkar’s tally of most Test runs. He also said this after his marathon 262 in the opening Test against Pakistan at the Multan Cricket Stadium as well. However, he also surpassed Sir Alastair Cook to become England’s leading run-getter in red-ball cricket. With 12,664 runs under his belt, he is the closest of the current era who can surpass Tendulkar, having retired with a tally of 15921 in a staggering 200 Tests as well.

He said as quoted by Sky Sports: “I’ve no idea. It’s some way off yet.”

Joe Root also added that he spent a large amount of his time during COVID to look at the areas of improvement and shared that it was some of it was a mental tweak as well.

“In Covid, I spent that period off really looking at my game, the areas where I felt there were little holes and weaknesses in it, and just really trying to have a really good understanding of my strengths and weaknesses. And then work with the strengths and try to tighten up the areas within my game that needed to just probably raise the level. Not all of that is technical, some of it was mental and maybe looking at the game slightly differently,” Root added.

“It was nice. He gave me a call and I had a good chat with him. As you’d imagine, with Cookie, he was very gracious and complimentary. It’s pretty cool. We’ll see if we can keep going,” he concluded.