Joe RootThe former England cricket team captain became just the 14th batsman to score 10,000 Test runs when he reached the milestone during a match-winning innings of 115* against New Zealand at Lord’s on Sunday. The 31-year-old Root is the only one in a select group of run-scorers who are still playing Test cricket. Indian cricket team legend Sunil Gavaskar was the first person to enter the elite club. On 7 March 1987, Gavaskar scored his 10,000th Test run in a match against Pakistan in Ahmedabad.
Gavaskar takes his Test 10,000th run off a Pakistan spinner ajaz fakih, As Gavaskar became the first player to touch the historic milestone, the game was briefly halted after the Ahmedabad crowd entered the ground.
Watch: The Moment When Sunil Gavaskar Became the first batsman to score 10,000 runs in Tests
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Sunil Gavaskar scored his 10000th run in the Ahmedabad Test when he played a late-cut off Ajaz Fakih in 1987.
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Gavaskar talks about the achievement and joy of being a first in the 10,000 club once told the Indian Express: “I knew I needed 57. I don’t usually look at the scoreboard. But once you get to 50, you get applause. At that level you get the feeling. If I’m not wrong, So I got to my 50. So with a single, I knew there were 7 more runs to go.
“Once you get to that 10,000 it’s absolutely magical. Magical because it wasn’t done before. 9,000 wasn’t even done before, and I did. But 9,000 is a four-digit number. 10,000 is a five-digit number. So it was almost like climbing Mount Everest for the first time.”
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Root is now part of the Elite Club. Root’s current Test batting average of just under 50, the mark of an all-time great, is his 26 centuries at this level surpassed only for England by the retired Sir. alastair cook33 runs. And Sunday’s innings showed there were still many more runs to come, with Root now freed from what he said had a “very unhealthy relationship” with the England captaincy.
(with AFP input)
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