England captain Joe Root has been in incredible form since the start of the year, scoring a century in his third successive Test. After scoring two hundreds across the two games against Sri Lanka, Root crossed the three-figure mark during the first Test in Chennai against India.
On the Day 2 of the match, Root continued on his incredible innings and reached the 150-run mark in the first session of the day. As he reached smashed a boundary to reach 160 in the innings during the second session of Day 2, Root went past India batting great Sachin Tendulkar to climb up the table in a unique record.
Root now has 8,406 runs in 100 Test matches, toppling the former Indian cricketer who had scored 8,405 runs in his first 100 Tests.
The top-scoring batsman in this list is West Indies great Brian Lara, who has scored 8,916 runs in the first-100 Tests of his career.
Here's the complete list (first 100 Tests)
- Brian Lara - 8916 runs
- Kumar Sangakkara - 8651 runs
- Younis Khan - 8600 runs
- Rahul Dravid - 8553 runs
- Mathew Hayden - 8553 runs
- Virender Sehwag - 8487 runs
- Sunil Gavaskar - 8479 runs
- JOE ROOT - 8409* runs
- Sachin Tendulkar - 8405 runs
- Ricky Ponting - 8253 runs
Here are some of the other records Joe Root achieved as he reached 150 against India:
- 2nd England captain after Alastair Cook to score 150 in India in a Test innings
- 10th score of 150+ in Test cricket. He remains only behind Cook (11) in England.
- 2nd Test captain to register 150+ scores in three successive Tests since Donald Bradman, who achieved the feat in 1937.
