Ricky Ponting Backs Joe Root To Break Sachin Tendulkar’s All-Time Test Record

New Delhi: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting feels that England batter Joe Root will surpass legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s all-time listing of most runs in Experiment cricket internal the arriving years.

The former England captain recently completed 12,000 Experiment runs all by utilising the three-suit home Experiment sequence in opposition t West Indies. In 143 Assessments, Root has accrued 12,027 runs at an everyday of 50.eleven inclusive of 32 centuries and sixty three 1/2-centuries. He is currently seventh on the listing of best run-getters in Experiment cricket.

The true-handed batter is 1,351 runs brief of Ponting’s whole of 13,378 runs and virtually Four,000 runs on the back of Tendulkar’s listing of 15,921 runs. He can shut this gap in a excellent way all by utilising his crew’s ICC World Experiment Championship sequence in opposition t Sri Lanka, which begins later this month.

“He may most on a regular basis in all probability strive this,” Ponting recommended host Sanjana Ganesan internal the logo new model of the ICC Review when asked if Root may most on a regular basis overtake Tendulkar’s big tally of runs in Experiment cricket.

“He is 33 years of age…(more than) 3000 runs on the back of. It depends what sequence of Experiment matches they play, but in the experience that they’re playing 10 to 14 Experiment matches a year and in the experience you’re scoring 800 to one thousand runs a year, then that kind of says he’s best three or four years off getting there. In order that’ll take him to 37 (years of age).

“If his starvation’s nonetheless there, then there’s every threat he may most on a regular basis do it,” he brought.

The 33-year-out of date scored his fourth crimson-ball century of the year closing month and has remodeled his begins offevolved to distinctive scores that set him as an replacement of completely diversified batters, opined Ponting.

“He is anyone that internal the closing couple of years has bought more constructive and more constructive. There’s always dialogue round batters attaining their good in their early 30s and he’s utterly conducted that,” Ponting acknowledged.

“It’s been his conversion premiums being the big thing. Four or 5 years ago, he became into making slightly a quantity of 50s and struggling to go on and make loads and he’s long previous the contrary way recently. Largely whenever he gets to 50 now, he goes on and makes a fine hundred. In order that’s been the utterly turnaround for him,” he brought.

Root shall be in motion for England internal the first Experiment of the sequence in opposition t Sri Lanka, starting on August 21 at Ancient Trafford in Manchester.