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Alastair Cook 1st English cricketer to join 10,000 Test runs club

Essex batsman scored a hundred on debut against India at Nagpur in 2006 and has now made 28 Test centuries

Alastair Cook 1st English cricketer to join 10,000 Test runs club
AFPPTI Chester-Le-Street (UK)
Last Updated : May 30 2016 | 9:50 PM IST
Alastair Cook became the first England batsman to score 10,000 Test runs when he made five against Sri Lanka on the fourth day of the second Test at the Riverside on Friday.

The England captain became just the 12th batsman -- and the only one still playing Tests -- in history to reach the landmark when the left-handed opener clipped Nuwan Pradeep for four through mid-wicket.

He was also the youngest to do so at 31 years and 157 days old, beating the previous record of India great Sachin Tendulkar (31 years and 326 days).

This was Cook's 128th Test and 229th innings at this level.

The Essex batsman scored a hundred on debut against India at Nagpur in 2006 and has now made 28 Test centuries.

At 31, Cook could have several more years as an international cricketer left in him, but whether he will break Tendulkar's all time aggregate Test record of 15,921 runs made in 200 Tests remains to be seen.

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Batsmen to have scored 10,000 runs in Tests

Players  Team Span Matches Innings Not-Outs Runs Highest-Score Average 100/50
Sachin Tendulkar India 1989-2013 200 329 33 15921 248*  53.78 51/68
Ricky Ponting Australia 1995-2012   168 287 29 13378 257 51.85 41/62
Jacques Kallis RSA/ICC 1995-2013 166 280 40 13289 224 55.37 45/58
Rahul Dravid  India/ICC  1996-2012 164  286 32 13288 270 52.31 36/63
Kumar Sangakkara  Srilanka  2000-2015 134  233 17 12400 319 57.40 38/52
Brian Lara West Indies 1990-2006  131  232  6 11953 400* 52.88 34/48
Shiv Chanderpaul West Indies 1994-2015  164  280  49  11867  203*  51.37 
30/66
Mahela Jayawardene SriLanka 1997-2014  149  252  15  11814  374 49.84  34/50 Allan Border Australia 1978-1994  156  265  44  11174  205 50.56  27/63 Stephen Waugh Australia 1985-2004 168 260 46 10927 200 51.06 32/50 Sunil Gavaskar India 1971-1987 125  214 16 10122 236* 51.12 34/45 Alastair Cook England 2006- 128 228 13 10000 294 46.32 28/47

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First Published: May 30 2016 | 8:28 PM IST

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