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Joe Root Career Stats And Overview

Samira Vishwas | July 30, 2025 2:24 PM CST

Out of the Fab Four, it seems that Joe Root has taken a lead when it comes to runs and legacy in Test cricket. While an excellent player across formats, his ability to make massive runs while playing the anchor role best suits Test cricket.

Joe Root is one of the greatest cricketers of the 21st century and is certainly among the greatest English players of this millennium. Yorkshire’s very own is also in the conversation of being the greatest Test batter of all-time, seeing how he stands second in the list of runs in the format.

Joe Root Stats

Joe Root Stats: Batting

Format	Matches	Ins.	Runs	B.F.	H.S.	Avg.	S/R	Full	4s	6s	50s	100s	200s
Tests	157	286	13409	23359	262	51.17	57.40	24	1433	45	66	38	06
ODIs	180	169	7126	8134	166*	49.14	87.60	24	575	53	42	18	00
T20IS	32	30	893	707	90*	35.72	126.30	05	92	16	05	00	00

Joe Root Stats: Bowling

Format	Matches	Ins.	Balls	Wics.	Runs	B.Fig	Avg.	Econ.	S/R	4w	5W	10w
Tests	157	164	6170	73	3450	5/8	47.26	3.35	84.5	02	01	00
ODIs	180	77	1755	28	1732	3/52	61.85	5.92	62.6	00	00	00
T20IS	32	09	84	06	139	2/9	23.16	9.92	14.0	00	00	00

Joe Root Stats: Fielding


Format	Matches	Catches
Tests	157	212
ODIs	180	88
T20IS	32	18

Joe Root Career Overview

Joseph Edward Root was born on December 30, 1990, making him 34 years old might be Yorkshire’s finest player ever. Even being in that conversation would be a massive honour for any player. At the age of 17, he would make his county debut.

By 2012, the boy-faced batter would make his national team debut, playing his first ever Test in December 2012. Within six months, he would debut in all formats. Even when his international career was young, experts saw the next great English batter in him. But at that time, all English eyes were on Alastair Cook, who was coming into his own prime.

He played for the England Cricket Team in most limited overs competitions in the coming years, from the Champions Trophy in 2013, to the 2015 ODI World Cup, which might have been the darkest hour of English Cricket in the modern day.

While he did well in all formats, Root always excelled in Tests. Around the end of the 2010s and the start of the 2020s, it seemed that England were a sub-par Test side, and only Joe Root could be relied on for making consistent runs. This was statistically the best time of his career. From 2021 to 2022, he scored 11 Test centuries. It wasn’t until the start of the Bazball era that the England Cricket Team started performing in the longest format of the game.

And while they were struggling in Tests, they were doing well in limited-overs cricket. The Three Lions won the 2019 ODI World Cup, and Joe Root was the team’s highest run scorer, making 578 runs in 10 matches at an average of over 82.

A part of the Fab 4, today, Joe Root is seen as a modern-day great. However, it is in Tests where he excels. Root might have even surpassed the legacy of his former captain Cook in this format, and is the second-highest run scorer in the format today after the great Sachin Tendulkar

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