With 67 half centuries and guess what, 41 test centuries, he remains a perpetual enigma of English Cricket, and one of the greatest that the game has ever seen and will ever see. Moreover, with no fewer than 109 fifty plus scores, Joe Root has emerged a towering figure across the annals of the game, not just English cricket! His greatness, truth be told, knows no bounds and the newly appointed England Test captain has already established such unmatched credentials in international red ball duties for his country that even the likes of Sir Alastair Cook, Michael Vaughan or Ben Stokes himself, do not challenge the impermeable standard that Joe Root‘s numbers have established already. 

It could be said that you are an elite company already when your gold standard of batting have already drawn comparison with the master of them all, Sir Sachin Tendulkar. 

Though if you were to ask the man himself, then it would appear clearly that Joe Root himself is not interested in the business of numbers, but committed towards the business of further elevating England status as a premier test match ranked team. 

Guess what? He’s already begun well in his second Jatin, as England’s captain of international Red ball format after putting Pakistan, visiting side under significant pressure in the opening Test, which is already underway.  

But over to the comparison with the great batting legend and the demo got from Indian cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, it appears that Joe Root is going to close in on the great man from India. But how so? 

For that, you have to focus on a single line of statistic and look no further. Tendulkar has against his most 50+ courses ever in test match history. The number being 119. But it comes to the number is 109. Here’s what the kicker. At 35 does not know anything about where to stop or went to stop and is going from strength to strength. Truthfully speaking, it is anybody’s guess whether he’ll be able to outlast Tendulkar‘s record and smash the test match standing.