Cook becomes 1st Englishman to cross 11k run-mark, Root continues love affair with India

Englands captain Alastair Cook plays a shot during the first day of the fifth and final test match against India at MAC Stadium in Chennai on Friday PicPTIChennai Skipper Alastair Cook on Friday became the first Englishman to surpass the 11000 Test runmark during the first day of the fifth Test against India hereCook was also the first from his country to complete the 9000 and 10000 runs in TestsThe English skipper won the toss and decided to bat on Friday and a leading edge through cover from the first ball of the match brought him two runs and took his Test tally to 11000The 31yearold is 10th on the list of alltime leading runscorers in Tests between two former Australia captains Allan Border 11174 runs and Steve Waugh 10927Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar tops the list with 15921 runs from 200 Tests Australias Ricky Ponting 13378 and South Africa allrounder Jacques Kallis 13289 rounding out the podiumBatting legend Rahul Dravid is fourth on the elite list with 13288 runs in 164 matches followed by Sri Lankas Kumar Sangakkara at 12400 in 134 gamesWest Indies stalwart Brian Lara is sixth totalling 11953 runs in 131 Tests ahead of compatriot Shivnarine Chanderpaul 11867 runs in 164 matches and Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene 11814 in 149Cook is playing his 140th Test and boasts more matches more runs more centuries 30 than any other Englishman and has also been involved in the most wins 57 for his countryHe made his Test debut against India at Nagpur in March 2006 His highest score in the longest format of the game is 294 against India in August 2011 at BirminghamFormer England captain Graham Gooch is the second most successful English batsman scoring 8900 runs in 118 TestsJOE ROOT VS INDIAJoe Root enjoys an outstanding batting record vs India in Tests his tally being 1096 runs at an average of 7306 including three hundreds and eight fifties in eleven TestsAmong the batsmen with at least ten innings in IndiaEngland Tests Roots average of 7306 is the second highest behind the 7527 by Ken Barrington 1355 runs in 14 Tests including three centuries and nine fiftiesRoot has taken his runs tally this year to 1471 ave5072 in 17 Tests including three centuries and ten fifties The said aggregate is his highest in a calendar year bettering the 1385 ave6021 in 14 Tests in 2015Roots series aggregate of 485 at an average of 5388 in five Tests in the current rubber is the fifth highest by an England batsman in a Test series in India the highest being 594 ave9900 in five Tests by Ken Barrington in 196162Moeen Alis fifth Test hundred is his second vs India He hit two centuries in a Test series for the first time 117 at Rajkot and 120 not out at ChennaiFor the first time Moeen Ali has amassed 1000 runs in a calendar year in Tests his tally being 1008 ave4800 in 17 TestsMoeen has joined Root Bairstow and Cook to amass 1000 runs or more this year in Tests For the second time in a calendar year four players have totalled 1000 runs in a calendar year for England in Tests the first occasion being in 2006 the batsmen were Kevin Pietersen 1343 Paul Collingwood 1121 Andrew Strauss 1031 and Alistair Cook 1013The above feat equals a record for most batsmen from a side to manage 1000plus runs in a calendar year India and South Africa had achieved the feat in 2008 and Sri Lanka in 2009Moeen is the sixth England batsman to hit two centuries in a Test series vs India in India joining Ken Barrington Colin Cowdrey Mike Gatting Andrew Struass and Alastair CookThe 146run stand between Ali and Root is the second highest for England for the third wicket vs India in India next only to the 206 between Cook and Pietersen at Mumbai in November 2012Cook is the tenth batsman to complete 11000 runs in Tests He has taken the least time from his Test debut 10 years and 290 daysCook at 31 years 357 days is the youngest batsman to accomplish the featBairstows runaggregate of 351 ave5014 is a new record by an England wicketkeeper in a Test series vs India surpassing the 319 ave3544 in five Tests by Dick Spooner in 195152 The said tally is the most by an England wicketkeeper in a Test series in Asia