Alastair Cook created history when he became the first-ever batsman from England to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Cook achieved the feat on the fourth day of the second Test against Sri Lanka, being played at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street. The left-handed England batsman also became the youngest ever to reach the mark of 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Cook is 31 years and 157 days old, and he has taken 127 Tests and 227 innings to create the record for England. Before this Test, Cook had played 127 Tests, and was 20 runs away from history as he had 9,980 runs in the format with 28 centuries and 47 half-centuries. LIVE CRICKET SCORECARD: England vs Sri Lanka 2016, 1st Test at Leeds, Day 1
Cook is the 12 batsman in the history of Test cricket to score 10,000 runs. The first batsman to achieve the feat in the conventional format was India’s Sunil Gavaskar, f0llowed by Australia’s Allan Border. Cook is the first England cricketer to make 9,000 runs in Test cricket, as the second in the list of most run-scorers in Tests is Graham Gooch, who scored 8,900 runs in 118 Tests for his country.
The left-handed Cook, who made 60 and 104 against India on his Test debut at Nagpur in 2006, is now the youngest batsman in the history of cricket to score 10,000 runs. Cook has taken 11 years and __ days to achieve the feat, as the record was previously held by Rahul Dravid, who took 11 years and 280 days to make 10,000 runs in Test cricket. The oldest in the list is Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who took 18 years and 37 days to achieve the five-figure mark.
Here is the list of highest run-scorers in Test cricket:
Player
Years
M
I
R
HS
Avg
100s
50s
Sachin Tendulkar
1989-2013
200
329
15921
248*
53.78
51
68
Ricky Ponting
1995-2012
168
287
13378
257
51.85
41
62
Jacques Kallis
1995-2013
166
280
13289
224
55.37
45
58
Rahul Dravid
1996-2012
164
286
13288
270
52.31
36
63
Kumar Sangakkara
2000-2015
134
233
12400
319
57.4
38
52
Brian Lara
1990-2006
131
232
11953
400*
52.88
34
48
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
1994-2015
164
280
11867
203*
51.37
30
66
Mahela Jayawardene
1997-2014
149
252
11814
374
49.84
34
50
Allan Border
1978-1994
156
265
11174
205
50.56
27
63
Steve Waugh
1985-2004
168
260
10927
200
51.06
32
50
Sunil Gavaskar
1971-1987
125
214
10122
236*
51.12
34
45
Alastair Cook
2006-2016
128
229
10000
294
46.56
28
47
Graeme Smith
2002-2014
117
205
9265
277
48.25
27
38
Younis Khan
2000-2015
104
186
9116
313
53.94
31
30
Graham Gooch
1975-1995
118
215
8900
333
42.58
20
46
However, in the list of top 15 batsmen in terms of runs scored in Test cricket, Cook’s average is the second lowest. Cook averages 46.56, where as his former mentor as England batting coach, Gooch averaged 42.58 in his career.
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