"Like Climbing Mt Everest...": As Joe Root Enters 10,000 Club, What Sunil Gavaskar Once Said About Achieving The Rare Feat

The 31-year-old Root is the only one among that select group of run-scorers to still be playing Test cricket. Indian cricket team legend SunilGavaskarwas the first to enter the elite club.

Joe Root, former England cricket team captain, became just the 14th batter to score 10,000 Test runs when he reached the landmark during his match-winning innings of 115* against New Zealand at Lord's on Sunday. The 31-year-old Root is the only one among that select group of run-scorers to still be playing Test cricket. Indian cricket team legend Sunil Gavaskar was the first to enter the elite club. On March 7, 1987, Gavaskar scored his 10,000th Test run in a match against Pakistan in Ahmedabad. RARE VIDEOSunil Gavaskar scored his 10000th run in the Ahmedabad Test when he played a late-cut off Ijaz Fakih in 1987.Gavaskar became the first cricketer to scale the Mount Everest — 10000 Test runsCourtesy: @Zohaib1981 pic.twitter.com/c8Vqd2tla8

Gavaskar took his Test 10,000th run off the bowling of Pakistan spinner Ijaz Faqih. As Gavaskar became the first to touch the historic milestone, play was halted for quite some time as the Ahmedabad crowd entered the field to congratulate the legend.

Talking about the feat and the joy of becoming the first-ever entrant to the 10,000 club, Gavaskar once told Indian Express: "I knew that I needed 57 runs. I normally don't look at the scoreboard. But once you reach a 50, you get an applause. At that stage you realise. If I'm not mistaken, I got to my 50 with a single. So, I was aware that now 7 more runs.