# Cricket: Joe Root became the second-highest run-scorer in Test history in the fourth match of the five-game series against India at Old Trafford. The former England skipper passed retired Australian great Ricky Ponting when he reached 120, having overtaken India’s Rahul Dravid and South Africa’s Jacques Kallis, earlier in the day. The 34-year-old, appearing in his 157th Test, went past Ponting’s tally of 13-thousand-378 runs with a single. India’s Sachin Tendulkar is safe in top spot, having scored a mammoth 15-thousand-921 runs in 200 Tests, but Root has time on his side.
Cricket: Root surpasses Ponting, Dravid and Kallis to become 2nd highest run-scorer in Test history