{"id":25496,"date":"2025-07-27T07:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25496\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:44:13","slug":"watch-i-grew-up-trying-to-be-like-him-joe-root-praises-sachin-tendulkar-as-he-nears-his-test-record-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25496\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: ‘I grew up trying to be like him’ \u2013 Joe Root praises Sachin Tendulkar as he nears his Test record | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Watch:England’s Joe Root (AP Photo\/Jon Super) England star Joe Root<\/a>, in a chat with Harsha Bhogle for Sony Sports, reflected on his admiration for Sachin Tendulkar<\/a>, a light-hearted moment during his debut tour to India, and his current place among Test cricket\u2019s all-time greats. An old tweet of Root\u2019s from 2013 recently surfaced again, where he wrote, \u201cSachin made his debut for India before I was born. Then played in my Test debut. #ThankYouSachin.\u201d Speaking now, Root shared, \u201cSachin is one of the greats. What he achieved with the pressure he was under was just phenomenal. When you play against him, you want to copy him, try to emulate him. Getting the opportunity to face him was a true honour.\u201d\"\u200bJoe<\/p>\n

Joe Root tweet<\/p>\n

He also recalled a moment from the 2012 India tour that left him amazed. \u201cPujara had scored a double hundred in the first Test. In the next one, he got out early and the entire crowd started cheering. I didn\u2019t get it at first, then realised it was because Sachin was coming in to bat. It felt bizarre but showed how loved and legendary he was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ollie Pope press conference: Why Joe Root can break Sachin Tendulkar\u2019s record, Ben Stokes\u2019 injury, and more<\/p>\n

Root recently moved to second on the list of all-time Test run-scorers, overtaking Rahul Dravid<\/a>, Jacques Kallis and Ricky Ponting during his superb 150 in Manchester against India. Now on 13,409 runs, he sits 2,512 behind Tendulkar\u2019s record tally of 15,921.<\/p>\n

Poll<\/p>\n

Do you believe Joe Root can surpass Sachin Tendulkar’s record?<\/p>\n

Describing the moment, Root said, \u201cIt\u2019s a pinch-yourself moment. Growing up, I used to pretend to be Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara<\/a> or Brian Lara in my garden or local club. Just to see my name next to theirs is pretty cool.\u201d When asked about the possibility of chasing down Tendulkar, he played it down. \u201cIt\u2019s not something I\u2019ll focus on. Those things should look after themselves. The focus has to be about winning games.\u201d Root acknowledged the noise around his milestones but added, \u201cThe numbers are everywhere, aren\u2019t they? But you try not to get caught up in it. You\u2019re not doing your job if you\u2019re thinking only about yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s Joe Root (AP Photo\/Jon Super) England star Joe Root, in a chat with Harsha Bhogle for Sony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,24925,2133,24924,17066,24926,24923,6989,17065,85,22981,1211],"class_list":["post-25496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-records","tag-england-cricket","tag-harsha-bhogle","tag-joe-root","tag-kumar-sangakkara","tag-rahul-dravid","tag-root","tag-sachin-tendulkar","tag-sports","tag-tendulkar","tag-test-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}