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Root could go on 'for twenty years'
Paisley Daily Express
|August 09, 2025
ENGLAND batter Joe Root’s insatiable appetite for runs has left even his fellow ‘Fab Four’ member Kane Williamson in awe.
The pair, plus Australia’s Steve Smith and India’s Virat Kohli, have lived up to their billing after being banded together and touted as future greats by former New Zealand batter Martin Crowe in 2014.
Root shows no sign of slowing down with 22 hundreds in his last 61 Tests and he recently moved up to second on the list of all-time top run-scorers in the format, now sitting 2,378 behind India’s Sachin Tendulkar.
The 34-year-old’s prolonged purple patch has so impressed Williamson - the former New Zealand captain - who is no doubt his contemporary seems like he could keep going for a lot longer.
This story is from the August 09, 2025 edition of Paisley Daily Express.
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