Joe Root

In the fourth Test against India, Root became the 655th player to represent England at Test level, receiving his cap from former England all-rounder Paul Collingwood.

Coming in as the number six batsman rather than his usual position as an opener, he scored 73 from 229 balls, top-scoring jointly with Kevin Pietersen.

In the second innings he made 20 not out to help England bat out the match and secure a first Test series win on Indian soil since 1984-85.

Root made his T20 debut in the second of a two-match series that followed, although he was not required to bat.

Joseph Edward Root, (born 30 December 1990) is an English international cricketer, who plays for the English cricket team and formerly captained the Test team.

He also represents Yorkshire in English domestic cricket.

Root is currently the leading run-scorer among all active batsmen and the tenth highest run-scorer of all time in Test cricket.

Root is considered to be one of the greatest batsmen of his era and one of the greatest batsmen England has ever produced.

Root made his Yorkshire second team debut on 18 July 2007 against Derbyshire at Abbeydale Park.

He scored 57, putting on a 133 first-wicket stand with Adam Lyth.

He continued to represent the academy side and was named player of the tournament as Yorkshire’s Academy won the ProARCH Trophy in Abu Dhabi.

After success at second team level, Root was given an opportunity in the first team in Yorkshire’s final Pro40 match of the season at Headingley against Essex.

Root scored 63 and was top-scorer in Yorkshire’s 187–7.

Although his half-century could not inspire Yorkshire to victory, Root described his debut as a “dream come true”.

After another man of the series performance, this time on England Under-19 duty in Bangladesh, Root signed a three-year professional contract with Yorkshire.

Root was selected for the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand, making an unbeaten 70 in a victory against Hong Kong as England progressed to the quarter-finals before being eliminated by the West Indies.

Later that winter, he was sent to the Darren Lehmann Cricket Academy in Adelaide, South Australia, to fine tune his game.

In 2011, Root’s County Championship debut against Worcestershire at New Road in April was one of 15 matches he played that year on top of his England Lions cricket team debut against Sri Lanka A. At Scarborough in August, he scored his maiden Championship hundred against Sussex.

Root made his Test debut in 2012, his ODI debut in 2013, and played for the England Twenty20 International team between 2012 and 2019.

Root captained Yorkshire in the match that they won the 2014 County Championship title and helped them retain it the following year.

In April 2022, Root was retained by the Trent Rockets for the 2022 season of The Hundred.

and on 23 December 2022 he was bought by Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2023 auction.

He captained England's Test team between February 2017 and April 2022, and holds the records for most Test matches (64), wins (27) and losses (26) as England captain.

On the occasion of England's 1,000th Test in 2018, Root was named in the country's greatest all-time Test XI by the England and Wales Cricket Board.

He was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup where he top scored for England.

He is also England's leading run scorer in the ICC World Cup and the only English player to score over 1000 runs.

He was the leading run-scorer of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup.

He was named both the ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year and the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for 2021.

In June 2022, he became the second batsman for England, and fourteenth overall, to score 10,000 Test runs.

A right-handed batsman, Root originally played as an opener but has played the majority of his cricket for England in the middle order.

He is England's second-highest run-scorer in Tests behind Alastair Cook, and England's second-highest run-scorer in ODIs behind Eoin Morgan.

He holds the record for most ODI centuries for England with 16 and, along with James Anderson, holds the world record for highest tenth-wicket stand in Tests (198).

Root also bowls occasional off spin.

Root is the eldest son of Helen and Matt Root and grew up in Dore, Sheffield.

His younger brother Billy plays cricket for Glamorgan.

Root attended Dore Primary and King Ecgbert School in Sheffield, and at 15, on a cricket sports scholarship, Worksop College as a weekly boarder.

Root followed in his father’s footsteps by joining Sheffield Collegiate CC, in Abbeydale Park.

Former Yorkshire batsman and England captain Michael Vaughan also plied his trade at Collegiate and was a source of inspiration for Root, who became a protégé of his.

Root won Player of the Tournament in the prestigious Bunbury Festival.

Root is a supporter of Sheffield United F.C.