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'Now Sachin should watch out': Michael Vaughan picks batter to break Tendulkar's world record
Michael Vaughan is confident that Sachin Tendulkar's record for the most Test runs could get broken, and the man he has tipped to do it is England's Joe Root. The former England captain reached 10000 Test runs against New Zealand during the Lord's Test.
The plethora of batting records left behind by Sachin Tendulkar will take quite some effort to match, let alone broken, but former England captain feels there is one player who can surpass the Indian batting great’s one impressive milestone. Tendulkar, who retired from international cricket after a 24-year-long career, holds the record for the most runs and centuries in ODIs and Tests, along with being the most capped Test cricketer of all time having played 200 matches for India.
Among these, Vaughan is confident that Tendulkar's record for the most Test runs could get broken, and the man he has tipped to do it is England's Joe Root. The former England captain reached 10000 Test runs against New Zealand during the Lord's Test and has established himself as arguably the country’s greatest Test batter of all time. Vaughan reckons that at 31, Root has what it takes to leave Tendulkar (15921 runs) behind and cement himself right at the top.
"Joe Root is England's best ever - now Sachin Tendulkar should watch out," Root wrote for The Telegraph. "For me Joe Root stands alongside Graham Gooch as England's greatest batsmen and the way he is going he could surpass Sachin Tendulkar’s record for the most Test runs. He is still 6000 short of Sachin’s total but he is only 31 and if James Anderson can play until he is 40 then I think Joe can too. He loves batting that much. He is driven. He is a cricket badger. You have to have it in you to wake up every morning and think about batting."
Before Vaughan, former Australia captain Mark Taylor had expressed similar thoughts, calling Tendulkar’s record 'very achievable'. Root scores his 26th Test century en route to achieving 10K, thus becoming only the second English batter to do so after Alastair Cook.
"Root has a minimum of five years left in him, so I think Tendulkar's record is very achievable. Root is batting as I have ever seen him bat over the last 18 months to two years. He is in the prime of his career, so there are 15,000 runs-plus for him if he stays healthy," Taylor had told Sky Sports.
As for why is Root that good, Vaughan wrote that unlike most of the batters, who try too much and, in the process, unintentionally make things tedious for themselves. "Why is Joe so good? He plays the game in a neutral way. A lot of modern players seem to be over-complicating - like batting outside off stump, running down the wicket, batting a yard or two outside the crease - which shows to me they are more concerned about what the bowler is going to do to them than anything else," wrote Vaughan.
"I look at quality players like Joe and they bat on middle, head over the top of off stump, nice and upright with a hovering back-lift. Joe knows exactly where his bat is and his feet are in a neutral position, they are aligned towards the angle of the ball whether it is left-arm over, right-arm over or left-arm round."
