Ponting predicts Tendulkar run tally record to tumble

The English right-hander is within 1,351 runs of Ponting (13,378) and less than 4,000 runs adrift of Tendulkar (15,921) and could cut into this even further during his side's ICC World Test Championship series against Sri Lanka that commences later this month.

Ponting paid compliment to Root when discussing his batting heroics on the most recent edition of The ICC Review and believes the world's No.1 ranked Test batter can reach even greater heights should his current rich vein of form continue.

"He could potentially do that," Ponting told host Sanjana Ganesan when asked if Root could overtake Tendulkar's massive tally of runs in Test cricket.

"He is 33 years of age…(more than) 3000 runs behind. It depends how many Test matches they play, but if they're playing 10 to 14 Test matches a year and if you're scoring 800 to 1000 runs a year, then that sort of says he's only three or four years off getting there. So that'll take him to 37 (years of age).

"If his hunger's still there, then there's every chance that he could do it."

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