Joe Root Surpasses Sachin Tendulkar To Claim Massive Test Feat Despite England Collapse Against India | Cricket News

Joe Root surpassed Sachin Tendulkar to say an enormous feat regardless of England’s batting collapse on Day 1 of the primary Test match between England and India on Thursday. While the veteran England batter may handle to attain simply 29 in 60 balls, he grew to become the best run-scorer in India-England Test matches as he went previous Sachin’s tally. Root at present has 2553 runs in 26 matches whereas Sachin scored 2535 in 32 matches towards England. Root additionally claimed one other main file as he grew to become the primary batter ever to attain 4000 runs in World Test Championship (WTC) encounters.

India have been comfortably positioned at 119 for one at stumps after bowling out England for 246 on the opening day of the primary Test on Thursday.

Young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was batting on a 70-ball 76 whereas Shubman Gill was unbeaten on 14 on the finish of the day’s play, as India trailed by 127 runs after shedding skipper Rohit Sharma (24).

England captain Ben Stokes received the toss and opted to bat first.

The guests have been off to a decant begin with openers Zak Crawley (20) and Ben Duckett (35) including 55 runs at a reasonably good tempo earlier than Ravichandran Ashwin gave India their first breakthrough by having Duckett trapped in entrance of the wicket.

Stokes top-scored with 70 off 88 balls and was the final English wicket to fall, bowled by Jasprit Bumrah (28).

Jonny Bairstow contributed 37 off 58 balls earlier than he was achieved in by an attractive supply from Axar Patel (2/33).

Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja and Ashwin bagged three wickets apiece whereas there have been two every for Axar and Bumrah.

(With PTI inputs)