Joe’s route to success

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

2024 is going to be a memorable year for Joe Root. He became England’s highest ever run scorer, and overtook Sir Alastair Cook’s Test century record for England too, but how did that feel and how did he get there?

In his own words, along with England captain Ben Stokes and friend & longtime teammate Jimmy Anderson, he talks us through his incredible year, and how he came to be one of England’s greats.

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0:20.5	We're also going to hear from the England captain Harry Kane.
0:23.0	Rodry, that was incredible.
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0:35.1	You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:41.3	Hello, I'm Henry Moran and welcome along to the Test Match Special podcast, where during
0:46.3	this episode, we're looking back at a remarkable 12 months for a man who has made 2024 his own.
0:52.9	And Joe Root goes to 34 test hundreds.
0:58.2	And Joe Root has done it.
1:00.3	He's become the highest scoring Englishman in test match history.
1:04.4	And that is a double hundred for Joe Root.
1:07.5	To come, we'll be hearing from his England captain, the man who took the roll over
1:10.9	from him, Ben Stokes, as well as long-time friend and teammate Jimmy Anderson, who for the second
1:16.3	half of this year has had the pleasure of watching on from the England dressing room. But first,
1:20.7	let's hear from the man himself. Joe Root takes us out to the middle during the innings that
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