Catchin' Sachin: the Root to the record

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

With Joe Root now second on the all time Test run-scorers list, Jonathan Agnew, Sir Alastair Cook and Cheteshwar Pujara ask if he can pass Sachin Tendulkar's 15,921 runs.

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0:00.0	It's not funny, it's true.
0:05.2	Lily Allen and Makita Oliver.
0:07.8	Um, Keats, I've got some questions for you on BBC Sounds.
0:11.4	Tell me what you've enjoyed about our podcast so far.
0:13.8	I like that you've got more and more comfortable in this space and I've watched you show all parts of yourself.
0:19.5	We've both cried.
0:20.7	Miss me with Lily Allen and Makita Oliver.
0:23.6	We're just us having a shot.
0:25.2	Feels like we've been doing it forever.
0:27.3	We kind of have.
0:30.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:33.9	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:38.7	The TMS podcast on BBC Sounds.
0:43.2	Hello and welcome to the Test Match Special podcast, where we're celebrating another
0:47.4	record-breaking achievement in the remarkable career of Joe Root, from his debut in Nugpur
0:52.4	to another major milestone in Manchester.
0:55.7	The TMS podcast on BBC Sounds.
1:03.5	One man following events with considerable interest, I suspect, is called Joe Root,
1:07.9	who is a young Yorkshire opener, who's been selected for England's test tour to India this winter. Joe Root, good afternoon to you. Afternoon, you're all right? Yeah, I'm fine. Congratulations. Great stuff. Thanks, thank you very much. When did it all start? When did you first pick up a cricket bet? I think I got shoved one in my hand when I was about two weeks old.
1:28.7	As he bowls to Root, who picks him up over deep midwicket,
1:31.0	and that is going to be just six.
1:33.6	It just carried over the ropes.
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