Joe Rot achieves HUGE record after WTC Final 2025, becomes first player to…

New Delhi: Even though the England team did not reach the final of the 2025 World Test Championship (WTC), Joe Root has achieved a historic feat in this tournament. South Africa defeated Australia in the final at Lord’s to win the WTC title for the first time. With this victory all three editions of the WTC had different winners – New Zealand (2019-21), Australia (2021-23), and now South Africa (2023-25).

WTC 2023-25: Joe Root highest-scoring players

Joe Root scored 1968 runs at an average of 54.66 in 22 matches in the 2023-25 ​​WTC cycle, including 7 centuries. He won the title of top scorer in the season. Meanwhile, Australia captain Pat Cummins was the highest wicket-taker in this cycle. He took 80 wickets in 18 matches.

Root becomes top run scorer of two consecutive WTC cycles
Root has made history by scoring the most runs in two consecutive WTC cycles (2021-23 and 2023-25). Earlier, he had scored 1915 runs in the 2021-23 session. Interestingly, Root was also the second-highest run-scorer in the 2019-21 season, where he was only 15 runs behind Marnus Labuschagne.

Each session’s top scorer

2019-21: Labuschagne (1675 runs), Root (1660 runs)

2021-23: Root (1915 runs), Khawaja (1621 runs)

2023-25: Root (1968 runs), Illustrious Jaiswal (1798 runs)

Joe Root’s all-time dominance at the WTC
Joe Root has become the batsman with the most runs (5543) and centuries (18) in WTC history so far. No player has reached 5000 runs after him. He also leads the way in terms of centuries, while in second place is Steve Smith, who has 13 centuries to his name.

Different bowler tops every session
The highest wicket-taker in each session at the WTC has been different — Ravichandran Ashwin (2019-21), Nathan Lyon (2021-23), and Pat Cummins (2023-25). The England side, however, have so far failed to make it to the final despite hosting the final at home all three times.