Big challenge: Reaching Everest of 15921 runs against Joe Root vs. Sachin Tendulkar?

Delhi: When Joe Root made a Test debut for England just a few days before his 22nd birthday in Nagpur in 2021, his 73 and 20* scores did not realize that this batsman would try to achieve Everest in Test cricket one day. Sachin Tendulkar was also in Team India then and this is the only international match in which both of them played together. Tendulkar finally retired with 15921 Test runs and his record became Everest. Root is a contender to achieve this Everest. By the first innings of the Oval Test, he needs 13438 runs and now 2484 runs to make Tendulkar number 2.

The race that started from that day is still going on. Route number 2 is currently. The Old Trafford Test against India converted the route to No. 5 to Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and Ricky Ponting to number 2 and for the first time it seems that someone is actually a contender to break Tendulkar’s record.

Which factors will make records due to which factors:

• Age with them: Are not even 35 years old.
• There is no shortage of test programs for them: England’s program till 2027 domestic season is scheduled. After the second innings of the Oval Test against India, 5 Tests in Australia, 6 against New Zealand and Pakistan in England next year, 3 in South Africa, 2 in Bangladesh, 1 in Melbourne and 7 Tests in 2027. When the World Test Championship finals played, another Test was played. In this way, you can play 26 Tests in the next two years.
• What will be the boom in the race: So far, on average 85.4 runs per Test (up to Old Trafford) are his names and if you keep scoring runs at this average, then 30 more tests will have to be played. In this way, the matter will overtake the 2027 English summer and according to the FTP, if the schedule goes on, then they will be the contender to achieve this Everest on the Bharat Tour in the beginning of 2028.
• The question is whether you will continue to score like this: Generally, the performance falls in the last years of career, but the route is getting better. From the beginning of 2021, in 60 Tests (up to Old Trafford), an average of 93 runs per Test. Last year, India is scoring an average of 101 runs in 19 Tests (up to Old Trafford) in India. When this fast was there, the route will be close to leaving Tendulkar behind in the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval in 2027.
• What will be fit till then: Looking at the record of the root, they can say that they will be fit. Has not played only two Tests since the debut.

All these hope is making Root a strong contender to achieve run Everest, but Test history is a witness that every career does not run as per expectation. Otherwise, the contenders became more, but somewhere in the race, his ‘petrol’ was over. Another thing is that the previous record shows that it will not be easy for the route to score as expected in Australia. Therefore, the form of the next few series will be special in this discussion. Till then there will be the same hunger to score runs inside the route itself?

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