Delhi: Australia has taken an unassailable lead of 3 0 in the Ashes 2025 26. Now the fourth test will be played in Melbourne from 26 December. Steve Smith will be seen captaining Australia in this Boxing Day Test. Pat Cummins will not play in the next match because he has been rested. In this match, England’s star batsman Joe Root is close to achieving a special achievement.

Australia will be eyeing defeating England for the fourth consecutive time in Melbourne. At the same time, the England team will take the field with the intention of making a comeback in the series. The biggest responsibility for England to score runs in this match will be on Joe Root. In the current series, he is the highest run scorer for England.

Big opportunity in front of Joe Root

In this Ashes series, Joe Root has scored 219 runs in six innings. His average has been 43.80 and he also has a century in his name. He will try to play a big innings in the fourth test. During this time, Root is very close to a special point.

The English batsman has played 379 matches in international cricket so far. He has scored 21,985 runs in these matches. If he scores 15 runs in the Boxing Day Test, he will complete 22000 international runs. He will become the first batsman from England and the ninth in the world to do so.

Players who have scored more than 22000 international runs so far include Sachin Tendulkar, Kumar Sangakkara, Virat Kohli, Ricky Ponting, Mahela Jayawardene, Jacques Kallis, Rahul Dravid and Brian Lara.

Batsman who scored most runs in international cricket

Joe Root is also second among the batsmen who have scored the most runs in Test cricket. He has scored 13762 runs in 161 test matches. He has 7330 runs in his name in ODI cricket. At the same time, he has scored 893 runs in T20 International.