4th Test (Old Trafford, Manchester) - 23rd to 27th of July

[Thala_0710]

Played, Joe Root. One of the greatest British sportsmen ever

@capt_Luffy top 50?

 

[Darwin Award]

Amazing turnaround.

One moment on 17 hundreds and now he's knocking on the door of 40.

Did anyone predict that 5 years ago?

 

[ImpatientLime]

genuinely makes me laugh that some people wanna have a conversation about who is the greatest english cricketer since botham.

root is so far clear. absolute champion of a player.

 

[King Kane]

Test ton no.38 for Root.

He is a batting machine.

 

[trundler]

genuinely makes me laugh that some people wanna have a conversation about who is the greatest english cricketer since botham.

root is so far clear. absolute champion of a player.

He's indisputably England's finest since Hutton.

 

[Darwin Award]

Anybody want to time capsule right now on how many centuries they think Root will finish up with?

I think he'll go past Ponting.... not sure about Kallis... even if he does play on for another 3-4 years.

 

[slowfinger]

Amazing turnaround.

One moment on 17 hundreds and now he's knocking on the door of 40.

Did anyone predict that 5 years ago?

didn't root get demoted from the "fab 4" at some point?

 

[PlayerComparisons]

didn't root get demoted from the "fab 4" at some point?

Yea he was replaced by Babar

 

[ImpatientLime]

Anybody want to time capsule right now on how many centuries they think Root will finish up with?

I think he'll go past Ponting.... not sure about Kallis... even if he does play on for another 3-4 years.

he's averaging about 4 centuries a year in the last five years (including 2025). if he goes for another 4 years he'll leave kallis in the dust.

 

[Kirkut]

Superb player, I am actually looking forward to the day he goes past Tendulkar in most runs!

 

[Darwin Award]

didn't root get demoted from the "fab 4" at some point?

I think it might've been an 11th hour emergency boardroom meeting by Burgey to strip him of that status after leaving Australian shores without another test century down under.

 

[ankitj]

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Moen Ali

 

[Kirkut]

Something off between Bumrah and Gill.

 

[Darwin Award]

Superb player, I am actually looking forward to the day he goes past Tendulkar in most runs!

2 records that Tendulkar will keep even though he's lost quite a few over the years:

1.Most test centuries
2.Most ODI runs.

2 pretty big records actually of the game.

 

[ankitj]

didn't root get demoted from the "fab 4" at some point?

He was stuck at 13 centuries for a loooong time. I miss those days

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

2 records that Tendulkar will keep even though he's lost quite a few over the years:

1.Most test centuries
2.Most ODI runs.

2 pretty big records actually of the game.

Pyjama cricket, doesn't count!

 

[Darwin Award]

If Root matches Ponting here he'll do it in exactly the same amount of innings as Punter..

 

[Kirkut]

2 records that Tendulkar will keep even though he's lost quite a few over the years:

1.Most test centuries
2.Most ODI runs.

2 pretty big records actually of the game.

Doesn't matter actually even if those records get broken, doesnt take anything away from the signature Tendulkar we all remember - the backfoot punch.

However, will be very happy if Root gets to most runs, it's been a long time since big test records have been broken!

 

[ImpatientLime]

Pyjama cricket, doesn't count!

lol he got 18k runs ffs

that was grind. try telling a man who scored 18k runs in any format they don't count.

 

[ImpatientLime]

Doesn't matter actually even if those records get broken, doesnt take anything away from the signature Tendulkar we all remember - the backfoot punch.

However, will be very happy if Root gets to most runs, it's been a long time since big test records have been broken!

i genuinely don't remember that shot because i found sachin deeply unremarkable to watch.