TAYLOR: ROOT CAN BEAT SACHIN’S RUN RECORD

FORMER Australia captain Mark Taylor has backed Joe Root to surpass Sachin Tendulkar as Test cricket’s leading run scorer — even though he is nearly 6,000 short of the Indian great’s haul. Taylor said: ‘Root has minimum five years left in him, so I think Tendulkar’s record (15,921) is very achievable. Over the last two years, he has batted as well as I have ever seen him bat. He is in the prime of his career.’