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

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.

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