Joe Root has struggled in Australia so far. (PC: AP)

Only a few thousand runs separate Joe Root from Sachin Tendulkar’s all-time Test runs record, and given the form that the England talisman has been in the last few years, there’s a high chance he’d break that in the next few years. However, as Root has shattered one milestone after another, one thing continues to dissociate him from the legendary master blaster: runs in Australia.

Root has scored 909 runs in 29 Test innings down under, averaging 33.33, with nine fifties and no centuries. The ongoing Ashes 2025-26 was predicted to be different, but it began indifferently for him, with wickets at 0 (7) and 8 (11), both against Mitchell Starc, in the first Test in Perth. It has prompted former England captain Michael Vaughan, the top-scor

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