Joe Root has overhauled Sir Alastair Cook as England’s record run scorer in Test cricket, passing his former captain’s mark of 12,472 on day three of the series opener against Pakistan. Root arrived in the country needing 71 to take top spot and got there in his first innings,

Joe Root has become England’s highest test run-scorer on the third day of the first cricket test against Pakistan.

Root is arguably England’s greatest-ever batter, there are few who can equal his ability to play across the globe in different conditions, and while Cook called time on his career at the same age as his former teammate’s current age, the Yorkshireman shows no signs of coming towards the end.