Joe Root: Joe Root's another blast in Test cricket, now he has made a place in this special club of legends like Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting.

Joe Root, 1000-plus Test runs in Most Calendar Years: Former England captain Joe Root is creating one record or the other in the Test every day. Joe Root, one of the great batsmen of the present time, has made another record in the list on the second day of the first Test of the series being held in Multan against Pakistan. Joe Root has also scored one thousand test runs in this calendar year. Joe Root has crossed the mark of 1000 runs in a calendar year for the fifth time in Tests. With this, he has come closer to Sachin Tendulkar's great record of crossing the figure of 1000 runs in a calendar year on most occasions in Test cricket.

England are currently on a tour of Pakistan, where the first match of the three-match series is being played between the two. In this match, Pakistan won the toss and batted first against the visiting team and scored 556 runs in the first innings on the basis of centuries from Abdullah Shafiq, Shan Masood and Agha Salman. In response, by the end of the second day's play, England had scored 96 runs at the loss of one wicket on the basis of Jack Crawley's unbeaten 64 and Joe Root's unbeaten 32 runs. Joe Root also completed one thousand runs in his Test this year by playing an unbeaten inning of 32 runs.

With this, Joe Root has equaled Brian Lara, Matthew Hayden, Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara and Alastair Cook in crossing the figure of one thousand runs in a calendar year on five occasions in Tests. Before this match, Joe Root had scored 986 runs in 20 innings this year at an average of 54.77. This year he has scored four centuries and four half-centuries with his bat.

Joe Root, who started his Test career in 2012, first crossed the mark of one thousand runs in a calendar year in 2015. That year, he scored 1385 runs in 26 innings at an average of 60.21 with three centuries and 10 half-centuries. Whereas in 2016 he scored 1477 runs in 32 innings. Whereas in 2021 he scored 1708 runs. In 2022 he had scored 1098 runs.

Sachin Tendulkar is on top in this list. He crossed the mark of one thousand test runs in a year in 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010. Whereas Brian Lara had crossed the mark of one thousand Test runs in a calendar year in 1995, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005.

Batsmen who have scored a thousand or more runs in Tests on most occasions in a calendar year

If Joe Root crosses the mark of one thousand runs in one more calendar year, he will equal this great record of Sachin Tendulkar. On the other hand, if Joe Root scores 39 more runs on Wednesday, he will leave Alastair Cook behind in terms of scoring most runs in Tests. Alastair Cook has scored 12472 runs in 291 innings of 161 matches at an average of 45.35. Whereas Joe Root has 12434 runs in his name till Tuesday evening. In such a situation, he needs 39 more runs to leave Cook behind.

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