England's Joe Root goes third on all-time Test run-scorers' list
Root adding just one further run under glorious blue skies in Manchester two balls later took him past Kallis and he is now only behind Australia's Ricky Ponting and India's Sachin Tendulkar.
The all-time leading run-scorers in Test cricket 📈
1️⃣ Tendulkar – 15,9212️⃣ Ponting – 13,3783️⃣ 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁 – 𝟭𝟯,𝟮𝟵𝟬 ⬆️4️⃣ Kallis – 13,2895️⃣ Dravid – 13,2886️⃣ Cook – 12,4727️⃣ Sangakkara – 12,4008️⃣ Lara – 11,9539️⃣ Chanderpaul – 11,867🔟 Jayawardene – 11,814
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— England Cricket (@englandcricket) July 25, 2025
The 34-year-old could yet overhaul Ponting's haul of 13,378 if he gets to 120 in this innings, although the great Tendulkar's record of 15,921 remains some way off.
Root overtook Sir Alastair Cook's previous England record of 12,472 runs in Pakistan last October, while the Yorkshireman is also the country's leading ODI run-scorer, going past Eoin Morgan last month.
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