Stats: Joe Root reaches 9000 Test runs as superb 2021 form continues

9000* – Joe Root turned only the 2nd to get to 9000 operates for England in Tests. Alastair Cook, in 2015, was the initial from England to achieve the milestone. Root turned the country’s 2nd-best operate-getter previously on Friday, when he went previous Graham Gooch’s tally of 8900 operates.

one – Root is the fastest to 9000 Check operates in phrases of days taken. He reached the landmark in only 8 yrs and 244 days from his debut to surpass Cook, who essential nine yrs and ninety three days.

Root, at 30 yrs and 227 days, is also the 2nd-youngest to 9000 Check operates. Cook holds the report – he was 30 yrs and 159 days aged at the time.

22 – Number of hundreds for Root in Check cricket, joint at third-best for England. Only Cook (33) and Kevin Pietersen (23) have scored additional Check hundreds of years than Root – and Geoffrey Boycott, Ian Bell, Colin Cowdrey and Wally Hammond, all with 22 – for England. As many as 11 of Root’s 22 hundreds have come whilst major England. Only Cook, with twelve, is in advance of Root on that checklist.

11 – Number of a hundred and fifty-in addition scores for Root in Tests, joint-most for England, along with Cook. Four of individuals 11 a hundred and fifty-in addition scores arrived at the Lord’s, the most by any participant at this location.

7 – Number of hundreds of years for Root in Tests against India, the joint-most by a participant in England vs India Check matches. Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Cook have all scored seven hundreds of years also.

5 – The century against India at Lord’s was the fifth in Tests for Root in 2021, the initial England captain with that many in a calendar calendar year. Root is also the initial with 5 Check hundreds of years for England in a calendar calendar year given that Bell also scored 5 in 2011.