It's Root's record if he really wants it, barring a big drop off. Even as an England fan, I wouldn't want Root to end up with the record with an average of 47/48, that would be a record because England play so much. Compared to Tendulkar's career from 16-40 averaging 54, which is just something we'll never see again. We've seen many 15 year careers where a player averages high 40s.
Graham Gooch was a world class opening batsman at 42. I don’t think AB’s style would have been suited for that anyway, too much reliant on speed/reflexes
Can’t see Joe beating the record by scoring 800 runs/year until he’s 40. I could see him doing it by scoring the bulk of 3000 runs over the next couple of years then playing on a little.
In the mid-section of the podcast, Jarrod seems to confuse two different stats: most runs per Teat match, and highest proportion of team runs per Test match. The former stat is unlikely to be positively affected by playing in a weak team.
The former will be affected by it. You play a three test series against a stronger team and you're good enough to average 50, but the rest of your line up is weak, you'll be batting twice and properly in all three tests. You're getting more chances than a comparable batsman in the opposition, they might have four proper innings from a potential six. Lara when he scored 600 odd runs in Sri Lanka and West Indies got pumped 3-0 is the best example of this.
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It's Root's record if he really wants it, barring a big drop off. Even as an England fan, I wouldn't want Root to end up with the record with an average of 47/48, that would be a record because England play so much. Compared to Tendulkar's career from 16-40 averaging 54, which is just something we'll never see again. We've seen many 15 year careers where a player averages high 40s.
Graham Gooch was a world class opening batsman at 42. I don’t think AB’s style would have been suited for that anyway, too much reliant on speed/reflexes
Can’t see Joe beating the record by scoring 800 runs/year until he’s 40. I could see him doing it by scoring the bulk of 3000 runs over the next couple of years then playing on a little.
In the mid-section of the podcast, Jarrod seems to confuse two different stats: most runs per Teat match, and highest proportion of team runs per Test match. The former stat is unlikely to be positively affected by playing in a weak team.
The former will be affected by it. You play a three test series against a stronger team and you're good enough to average 50, but the rest of your line up is weak, you'll be batting twice and properly in all three tests. You're getting more chances than a comparable batsman in the opposition, they might have four proper innings from a potential six. Lara when he scored 600 odd runs in Sri Lanka and West Indies got pumped 3-0 is the best example of this.