How Joe Root and Sir Alastair Cook contrast as England Test run document damaged

Joe Root is currently England’s document Test run-scorer after getting to 72 not out at lunch on day 3 of the initial Test versus Pakistan.

Root has actually passed fellow previous captain Sir Alastair Cook’s 12,472 runs and right here the information company checks out exactly how he contrasts.

Root vs Cook

Cook played 161 Tests and batted 291 times, balancing 45.35 for his 12,472 runs.

He racked up 33 centuries and 57 fifties, with an ideal of 294 versus India in 2011.

Root rates initial and Cook 2nd for England in runs, centuries and ratings of 50-plus, with Root 2nd to Cook in innings. They are England’s 3rd and 4th most-capped gamers behind veteran joint collaboration James Anderson and Stuart Broad.

Root’s document

Root has actually passed Cook for 5th position on the all-time listing of Test run markers, having actually climbed up from the last area in a stuffed leading 10 throughout July’s collection versus the West Indies.

He passed Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene in the initial innings at Trent Bridge after that West Indians Shivnarine Chanderpaul with his second-innings century and Brian Lara when he made 87 at Edgbaston.

He checked off Jayawardene’s veteran team-mate Kumar Sangakkara in the 3rd Test versus Sri Lanka, after that Cook in Multan with an on-drive soon prior to lunch.

The following 3 names on the listing go to the very least 800 runs in advance of Root however within 1,000, with India’s Rahul Dravid and South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis making 13,288 and 13,289 specifically and previous Australia captain Ricky Ponting 13,378. India’s ‘Little Master’ Sachin Tendulkar made a document 15,921.

Root has even more runs versus India than any type of various other resistance, 2,846 in 30Tests Next are Australia, versus whom he has 2,428 in 34 video games, while his ideal standard protests Sri Lanka at 62.54.

Root’s impact can be seen when filtering his batting standard by suit result– he standards over 25 runs a lot more in England wins than beats, 63.18 to 34.90.

He racked up 1,708 runs in 2021, one of the most of his profession and among 5 times he has actually passed 1,000, while his ideal standard for a solitary year was 97.13 throughout 11 innings in 2014– passing 50 in 6 of those and 100 on 3 celebrations.

He balanced 52.80 before taking the captaincy in July 2017, dipped to 46.45 as captain and has greater than recouped his previous degree given that standing down in March 2022.

The impact of England’s brand-new design under Ben Stokes, Root’s follower as captain, and trainer Brendon McCullum is likewise obvious. Root’s strike price was 54.65 prior to standing down as captain and had actually raised to 68.08 prior to his knock in Multan, while he struck just 15 6s in 5 years before taking the captaincy, 10 in 5 years as captain and after that 19 given that, with 15 in 2023 alone.

Having sometimes been asked to go up and down the batting order throughout his profession, Root has actually worked out at number 4 where he has actually played 153 of his 268 Test innings, balancing 52.74. His just much better standard by placement goes to number 5, with an extremely outstanding 67.26 in 35 innings.

He has more than 1,000 go for Lord’s, and his ideal standard with a minimum of 4 innings at one place is 77.33 at Galle.