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by Sam Drury & Matthew Henry

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    All about Steve: Joe Root's insatiable appetite for runs is like me at an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet.

    Matt Wass: In years to come England cricket fans will look at this last 10-12 years and realise how lucky they were to witness three of our all-time greats playing in the same team for over TEN years. #broad #anderson #root

    Josh Land: England's greatest of all time

  2. James Anderson and Joe RootGetty Images

    Joe Root gets a handshake from Ben Stokes and a pat on the back from Jimmy Anderson on his way off.

    We all knew he was good when he made that 73 on debut as a 21-year-old against India 12 years ago.

    Now he is, statistically at least, England's greatest.

  3. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Test Match Special

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    It's been very much England's session. It's been a remarkable achievement for Joe Root. But there's still a job to do in the afternoon. England are still needing a significant amount of runs to avoid the follow-on against Pakistan.

  4. Lunch - Eng 232-2

    Trail by 324

    And that is lunch.

    Still Joe Root isn't even smiling. Just another day's work.

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    Joe Root seems too nice a person for something like this. But breaking the record for most test runs by an England batsman on your brother's wedding day, could be seen as the ultimate game of sibling one-up-man-ship! (Maybe that's just my family!)

    Alex in Liverpool

  6. Eng 226-2

    Joe RootGetty Images

    Class from the very start until the record...

    Joe Root and Ben DuckettGetty Images

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    If ever there was a befitting way of Joe Root breaking Sir Alastair Cook’s record then we’ve just seen it. A trademark Root on drive - what a player and a joy to watch!

    William Munt

  8. Eng 226-2

    Sir Alastair Cook and Joe Root's dad are going to be on TMS during lunch.

    You can listen on this page by clicking the icon above.

  9. Most runs in Tests

    Sachin Tendulkar (India) 15,921

    Ricky Ponting (Aus) 13,378

    Jacques Kallis (SA/ICC) 13,289

    Rahul Dravid (India/ICC) 13,288

    Joe Root (England) 12,473

  10. Eng 223-3

    Trail by 333

    Aggers says Joe Root's brother Billy is getting married today too!

    What a day.

  11. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Joe Root seems so focussed on wrestling England back into this game. He has other things in his mind - saving his team in this Test match.

  12. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Watch: TMS react as Root breaks England test record

    Joe Root has become the highest-scoring Englishman in Test match history. And he's done so indemonstrably. There's no raising of the bat, no kissing of the badge and no jumping up and down!

  13. Eng 221-2

    Root 71, Duckett 71

    And what a way to do it. A perfect on-drive.

    Joe Root doesn't even look bothered. He just gives a wave to the dressing room.

    The greatest to ever do it for England? The stats say so.

  14. Joe Root becomes England's leading Test run-scorer
    Breaking

    Root

    There it is!

  15. Eng 217-2

    So back we go to Joe Root's quest to become England's all-time leading run-scorer.

    Two more runs take him to 12,469. Alastair Cook is only three away now.

  16. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Muhammad Rizwan wasn't very interested and it felt like a review out of desperation. Those 15 seconds must be so hard as a captain.

  17. Not out

    Settle down, everyone.

  18. It has hit Root on the top of his pad flap. It might be missing leg too.

  19. Pakistan review

    Joe Root is hit on the pad!

    The umpire says no but Pakistan like this.

    Nervy times.

  20. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Joe Root is a great player. There's no area of his game that you look at and you say, I'm not sure. No stage today have I felt that he might get out.