Joe Root overtakes Sir Alastair Cook to become England's highest Test run-scorer of all time.
Root eclipsed Cook's tally of 12,472 Test runs when he hit an elegant straight drive back past Aamer Jamal to reach 71 against Pakistan on day three of the first Test in Multan.
He made his Test debut against India in Nagpur in 2012 and since then has hit 34 Test centuries, with a top score of 254 against Pakistan.
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