Current Batting Records (after 1st Test at Lords) 12099 - Alastair Cook 8900 - Graham Gooch 8463 - Alec Stewart 8231 - David Gower 8181 - Kevin Pietersen 8114 - Geoffrey Boycott 7728 - Michael Atherton 7727 - Ian Bell 7624 - Colin Cowdrey 7249 - Wally Hammond Alastair Cook is 6th in the all-time list, and needs 302 to pass Kumar Sangakkara Joe Root 65th in the all-time list with 5,915 runs. He needs 35 to pass Richie Richardson
Current Bowling Records (after 1st test at Lords) 535 - Jimmy Anderson 411 - Stuart Broad 389 - Sir Ian Botham 325 - Bob Willis 307 - Fred Truman 297 - Derek Underwood 255 - Graeme Swann 252 - Brian Statham 248 - Matthew Hoggard 236 - Sir Alec Bedser Jimmy Anderson is 5th in the all-time list. He is 28 behind Glenn McGrath who is the highest placed non-spinner. Stuart Broad is now 14th (3 behind Wasim Akram).
Current Batting Records (after 2nd Test at Leeds) 12145 - Alastair Cook 8900 - Graham Gooch 8463 - Alec Stewart 8231 - David Gower 8181 - Kevin Pietersen 8114 - Geoffrey Boycott 7728 - Michael Atherton 7727 - Ian Bell 7624 - Colin Cowdrey 7249 - Wally Hammond Alastair Cook is 6th in the all-time list, and needs 256 to pass Kumar Sangakkara Joe Root 64th in the all-time list with 5,960 runs. He needs 121 to pass Gundappa Viswanath
Current Bowling Records (after 2nd Test at Leeds) 540 - Jimmy Anderson 417 - Stuart Broad 389 - Sir Ian Botham 325 - Bob Willis 307 - Fred Truman 297 - Derek Underwood 255 - Graeme Swann 252 - Brian Statham 248 - Matthew Hoggard 236 - Sir Alec Bedser Jimmy Anderson is 5th in the all-time list. He is 23 behind Glenn McGrath who is the highest placed non-spinner. Stuart Broad is now joint11th with Harbhajan Singh (2 behind Dale Steyn). Herath (416) should re-pass him later today.
In the Leeds Test Alastair Cook went past Alan Borders record of consecutive test matches played: Alastair Cook - 154 Alan Border - 153 Mark Waugh - 107 Sunil Gavaskar - 106 Brendan McCullum - 101 AB DeVilliers - 98 Adam Gilchrist - 96 Incredible to play so many without being dropped or injured Next highest Englishmen were Alan Knott/Ian Botham in 23rd on 65
Current Batting Records (after 1st Test at Edgbaston) 12158 - Alastair Cook 8900 - Graham Gooch 8463 - Alec Stewart 8231 - David Gower 8181 - Kevin Pietersen 8114 - Geoffrey Boycott 7728 - Michael Atherton 7727 - Ian Bell 7624 - Colin Cowdrey 7249 - Wally Hammond Alastair Cook is 6th in the all-time list, and needs 243 to pass Kumar Sangakkara Joe Root 64th in the all-time list with 6,054 runs. He needs 27 to pass Gundappa Viswanath
Current Bowling Records (after 1st Test at Edgbaston) 544 - Jimmy Anderson 419 - Stuart Broad 389 - Sir Ian Botham 325 - Bob Willis 307 - Fred Truman 297 - Derek Underwood 255 - Graeme Swann 252 - Brian Statham 248 - Matthew Hoggard 236 - Sir Alec Bedser Jimmy Anderson is 5th in the all-time list. He is 21 behind Glenn McGrath who is the highest placed non-spinner. Stuart Broad is 12th (2 behind Dale Steyn and Shaun Pollock).
Current Batting Records (after 2nd Test at Lords) 12179 - Alastair Cook 8900 - Graham Gooch 8463 - Alec Stewart 8231 - David Gower 8181 - Kevin Pietersen 8114 - Geoffrey Boycott 7728 - Michael Atherton 7727 - Ian Bell 7624 - Colin Cowdrey 7249 - Wally Hammond Alastair Cook is 6th in the all-time list, and needs 222 to pass Kumar Sangakkara Joe Root 64th in the all-time list with 6,073 runs. He needs 8 to pass Gundappa Viswanath
Current Bowling Records (after 2nd Test at Lords) 553 - Jimmy Anderson 424 - Stuart Broad 389 - Sir Ian Botham 325 - Bob Willis 307 - Fred Truman 297 - Derek Underwood 255 - Graeme Swann 252 - Brian Statham 248 - Matthew Hoggard 236 - Sir Alec Bedser Jimmy Anderson is 5th in the all-time list. He is 10 behind Glenn McGrath who is the highest placed non-spinner. Stuart Broad is 10th - 6 behind the still playing Rangana Herath and 7 behind Sir Richard Hadlee.
Current Batting Records (after 4th Test at Southampton) 12254 - Alastair Cook 8900 - Graham Gooch 8463 - Alec Stewart 8231 - David Gower 8181 - Kevin Pietersen 8114 - Geoffrey Boycott 7728 - Michael Atherton 7727 - Ian Bell 7624 - Colin Cowdrey 7249 - Wally Hammond Alastair Cook is 6th in the all-time list, and needs a unlikely 147 to pass Kumar Sangakkara in his final test Joe Root 62nd in the all-time list with 6,154 runs. He needs 14 to pass Hershal Gibbs. However Virat Kohli is now only 56 runs behind Root.
Current Batting Records (after 5th Test at the Oval) 12472 - Alastair Cook 8900 - Graham Gooch 8463 - Alec Stewart 8231 - David Gower 8181 - Kevin Pietersen 8114 - Geoffrey Boycott 7728 - Michael Atherton 7727 - Ian Bell 7624 - Colin Cowdrey 7249 - Wally Hammond So much for an unlikely 147!!. Alastair Cook moved into 5th in the all-time list, passing Kumar Sangakkara in his final test Joe Root is now 58th in the all-time list with 6,279 runs, having passed Hershal Gibbs, Steve Smith, Mohammed Azurhaddin, Rohan Kanhai and Mike Hussey. He needs 3 to catch Ross Taylor. Root needs 970 to catch Wally Hammond to be in the top 10 England batsmen. He is currently 15th, with Thorpe, Barrington, Hutton and Strauss still ahead of him. For the Sri Lanka series I will extend the list to England's top 15
Current Bowling Records (after 5th test at the Oval) 564 - Jimmy Anderson 433 - Stuart Broad 389 - Sir Ian Botham 325 - Bob Willis 307 - Fred Truman 297 - Derek Underwood 255 - Graeme Swann 252 - Brian Statham 248 - Matthew Hoggard 236 - Sir Alec Bedser Jimmy Anderson is 4th in the all-time list and is the highest placed non-spinner having passed Glenn McGrath. Stuart Broad is 9th having passed Sir Richard Hadlee. He is 1 behind Kapil Dev. However Hearath is only 3 behind him so that's likely to change when we play Sri Lanka!!
Alastair Cook ended up with 175 test match catches which put him 6th in the all time list The Top 5 are R Dravid (210), M Jayawardene (205), J Kallis (200), R Ponting (191) and M Waugh (181)
Current Batting Records (after 1st Test at Galle) 12472 - Alastair Cook 8900 - Graham Gooch 8463 - Alec Stewart 8231 - David Gower 8181 - Kevin Pietersen 8114 - Geoffrey Boycott 7728 - Michael Atherton 7727 - Ian Bell 7624 - Colin Cowdrey 7249 - Wally Hammond 7037 - Andrew Strauss 6971 - Len Hutton 6806 - Ken Barrington 6744 - Graham Thorpe 6317 - Joe Root Joe Root is now 57th in the all-time list with 6,317 runs, having passed Ross Taylor. Root needs 932 to catch Wally Hammond to be in the top 10 England batsmen.
Current Batting Records (after 2nd Test in Sri Lanks) 12472 - Alastair Cook 8900 - Graham Gooch 8463 - Alec Stewart 8231 - David Gower 8181 - Kevin Pietersen 8114 - Geoffrey Boycott 7728 - Michael Atherton 7727 - Ian Bell 7624 - Colin Cowdrey 7249 - Wally Hammond 7037 - Andrew Strauss 6971 - Len Hutton 6806 - Ken Barrington 6744 - Graham Thorpe 6455 - Joe Root Joe Root is now 52nd in the all-time list.
Current Batting Records (after 3rd Test in Columbo) 12472 - Alastair Cook 8900 - Graham Gooch 8463 - Alec Stewart 8231 - David Gower 8181 - Kevin Pietersen 8114 - Geoffrey Boycott 7728 - Michael Atherton 7727 - Ian Bell 7624 - Colin Cowdrey 7249 - Wally Hammond 7037 - Andrew Strauss 6971 - Len Hutton 6806 - Ken Barrington 6744 - Graham Thorpe 6508 - Joe Root Joe Root is 52nd in the all-time list. Other totals for current England players are - Johnny Bairstow 3,696, Ben Stokes 2,966 and Moeen Ali 2,692
Current Bowling Records (after the Sri Lanka series) 565 - Jimmy Anderson 433 - Stuart Broad 389 - Sir Ian Botham 325 - Bob Willis 307 - Fred Truman 297 - Derek Underwood 255 - Graeme Swann 252 - Brian Statham 248 - Matthew Hoggard 236 - Sir Alec Bedser 234 - Andrew Caddick 229 - Darren Gough 226 - Steve Harmison 226 - Andrew Flintoff 202 - John Snow Not much movement here with 1 wicket between them in the series! Moeen Ali has 173 wickets, Ben Stokes 117 and Chris Woakes 72
Current players most aggregate runs in tests: Joe Root - 6508 Ross Taylor - 6406 Virat Kohli - 6368 David Warner - 6363 Steve Smith - 6199 Kane Williamson - 5724 Azhar Ali - 5610 Angelo Matthews - 5296 Cheteshwar Pujara - 5099
After a raft of tests in December/Early Jan - updated current players most aggregate runs in tests: Virat Kohli - 6613 Ross Taylor - 6523 Joe Root - 6508 David Warner - 6363 Steve Smith - 6199 Kane Williamson - 5865 Azhar Ali - 5654 Angelo Matthews - 5554 Cheteshwar Pujara - 5426 Joe Root drops 2 places!!
Current Batting Records (after 1st Test in Barbados) 12472 - Alastair Cook 8900 - Graham Gooch 8463 - Alec Stewart 8231 - David Gower 8181 - Kevin Pietersen 8114 - Geoffrey Boycott 7728 - Michael Atherton 7727 - Ian Bell 7624 - Colin Cowdrey 7249 - Wally Hammond 7037 - Andrew Strauss 6971 - Len Hutton 6806 - Ken Barrington 6744 - Graham Thorpe 6534 - Joe Root Joe Root is 53rd in the all-time list (Kohli had overtaken him since the last test in Sri Lanka)
