England cricket star looks adorable in throwback pics before record-breaking feats – but can you guess who it is?
AN ENGLAND cricket star looked adorable in throwback pictures before becoming a record-breaker.
The Test side is taking on Pakistan in a three-match series in the subcontinent.
The Sheffield-born star attended Dore Primary and King Ecgbert School during his childhood.
When he turned 15, he earned a sports scholarship at Worksop College after displaying his talents.
Having debuted for Yorkshire’s second team in 2007, he worked his way up to becoming a full-time England international.
The star made their debut for the national Test side in 2012 against India as he became the 655th player to represent England.
Since the adorable throwback pictures, he has gone on to become a record-breaking run scorer for the team.
The player is, of course, Joe Root.
The batter surpassed Sir Alastair Cook’s record of 12,472 runs, scoring across 161 matches.
Root, 33, smashed the record in his first innings in the first Test match at the Multan Cricket Stadium.
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The star scored an incredible 262 runs off 375 balls to take his run total for England to 12,664.
With his current total, he is now the fifth most prolific run-scorer in the history of Test cricket.
England's incredible innings
Here is England's scorecard for the huge innings agianst Pakistan...
Zak Crawley – 78, 85b, 13 4s, 0 6s, 91.76S/R
Ollie Pope – 0, 2b, 0 4s, 0 6s, 0.0S/R
Joe Root – 262, 375b, 17 4s, 0 6s, 69.87S/R
Ben Duckett – 84, 75b, 11 4s, 0 6s, 112.0S/R
Harry Brook – 317, 322b, 29 4s, 3 6s, 98.45S/R
Jamie Smith (Wk) – 31, 24b, 2 4s, 1 6s, 129.17S/R
Chris Woakes* – 17, 16b, 1 4s, 0 6s, 106.25S/R
Gus Atkinson – 2, 2b, 0 4s, 0 6s, 100S/R
Brydon Carse* – 9, 6b, 0 4s, 1 6s, 150S/R
Extras – 23
Total – 823/7 from 150 overs
- b = Balls, S/R = Strike rate, * = Not out
Root is only behind the legends of Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis and Rahul David.
Tendulkar is well ahead at the top of the leaderboard with an astonishing 15921 runs in 200 matches across his career, which spanned from 1989 to 2013.
Root’s 262 is his best-ever score in Test cricket. However, it was not the best in the match.
His team-mate Harry Brook managed to upstage him with a miraculous 317 from just 322 balls.
The pair scored an incredible 454 during their time together at the crease, which is the highest test partnership in England’s history.
It surpassed the 409-run stand that Colin May and Peter Cowdry put up against the West Indies in 1957.
The only England batter from the top order that would have been majorly disappointed would be Ollie Pope.
The stand-in captain failed to trouble the scorers as he was caught off his second ball for zero.
England finished their first innings with a massive 823 runs and a lead of 267 after Pakistan’s opening stand of 556.
The innings are England’s third highest scoring in their history, only behind the 849 against the West Indies in 1930 and a 903/7d against Australia in 1938.