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Middle-order batsman and former captain Joe Root holds several England Test cricket records. Making his Test debut in 2012, as of December 2024 he has scored 12,972 runs – making him the second England player to score 10,000 Test runs. [9] He has made a record 65 half-centuries and 36 centuries, [10] and was one half of the highest England ...
In the Manchester Test of 1956, England spin bowler Jim Laker took 19 wickets for 90 runs (19–90) which set not only the Test record for best match figures but also the first-class one. [13] In taking 10–53 in the second innings he became the first bowler to capture ten wickets in a Test match innings, and his analysis remains the best ...
With 8,900 runs, Gooch was the leading Test run-scorer for England [2] until overtaken by Alastair Cook in 2015. [3] Gooch is one of 25 players in history to have scored over 100 first-class centuries. [4] Having coached at Essex, [5] he was full-time test batting coach for the England cricket team 2012–2014. [6]
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of 8,032 runs. The record stood for nine years, until it was ...
List of England Test cricket records; List of England Twenty20 International cricket records
A Test match is an international two-innings per side cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap by playing for the England cricket team. Where more than one player won his first Test cap in the same Test match, those players are listed alphabetically by ...
Position in the batting order: Inn. The innings of the match Test The number of the Test match played in that series S/R Strike rate during the innings H/A/N Venue was at home (England), away or neutral Date Date the match was held, or the starting date of match for Test matches Lost The match was lost by England. Won The match was won by ...
Pos. denotes his position in the batting order. Test denotes the number of the Test match played in that series. Inn. denotes the number of innings in the match. H/A/N denotes whether the venue is home (England), away (opposition's home) or neutral. Date denotes the date on which the match began. Lost denotes that the match was lost by England.