Joe Root Breaks Tendulkar’s Record for Test Fifties

Joe Root is an England cricketer who plays Test matches.

In the third match against Pakistan, he scored 62 runs without being dismissed.

A score of 50 or more is called a half-century, or fifty.

This was Root’s 69th Test half-century.

He passed Sachin Tendulkar, who had made 68 Test half-centuries.

England won the match by eight wickets and swept the series 3-0.

Root also scored more than 1,000 Test runs at Edgbaston.

He has now reached that mark at four different grounds.

Only Jacques Kallis and Ricky Ponting had previously done that.