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Joe Root

Batting style:
Right Handed bat
Bowling style:
Off break
Played for:
England, England XI, Yorkshire, England Under-19, England Lions
Roles played:
Batsman
ICC Rank:
Batting:
107
Bowling:
0
Batting:
60
Bowling:
194
Batting:
319
Bowling:
220
Home country:
England
Born:
December 30, 1990, Sheffield, Yorkshire

Profile

Joe Root has often been compared to Geoffrey Boycott and Michael Vaughan, two of Yorkshire’s premium batsmen. The right-hand batsman was named in the U-19 squad for the World Cup in New Zealand after performing well against Bangladesh U-19 in 2009.

Root scored close to a 1000 runs for Yorkshire’s first XI that season and was given a chance to play for the England Lions. He made his first-class debut in 2010, and since then became a regular in the Lions setup. Impressing batting coach Graham Thorpe, Root scored 964 first-class runs in the season with a highest score of 222 against Hampshire. In 2012, the 21-year old was then handed a deserving berth in the national squad for the Test series against India, in place of retired Andrew Strauss along with a place in Yorkshire’s T20 squad for the Champions League T20.
 


Statistics

Show:
  Matches Innings Runs NO Avg. SR 100's 50's HS
Test 5 9 292 1 36.5 36.18 0 2 73
ODI 8 7 326 3 81.5 86.47 0 3 79*
T20 2 0 0 - 0 0 0
CLT20 4 3 36 0 12 83.72 0 0 25
  Matches Innings Balls Runs Wickets BBI BBM Avg. Econ. 4w 5w 10w Extras
Test 5 5 66 36 0 0/5 / - 3.27 0 0 0 0
ODI 8 4 126 114 0 0/5 / - 5.42 0 0 0 2
T20 2 1 12 15 1 1/15 / 15 7.5 0 0 0 0
CLT20 4 4 30 49 1 1/26 / 49 9.8 0 0 0 0
  Catches Stumpings Runouts
Test 3 0 0
ODI 4 0 0
T20 3 0 1
CLT20 1 0 0

Career

Span:
Test:
2012-2013
 
ODI:
2013-2013
 
T20:
2012-2013
 
CLT20:
2012-2012
Test
Debut:
England Vs India at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur - Dec 13, 2012
Last played:
England Vs New Zealand at Lord's, London - May 16, 2013
ODI
Debut:
England Vs India at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot - Jan 11, 2013
Last played:
England Vs New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland - Feb 23, 2013
T20
Debut:
England Vs India at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai - Dec 22, 2012
Last played:
England Vs New Zealand at Westpac Stadium, Wellington - Feb 15, 2013
CLT20
Debut:
Yorkshire Vs Sydney Sixers at Newlands, Cape Town - Oct 16, 2012
Last played:
Yorkshire Vs Chennai at Kingsmead, Durban - Oct 22, 2012
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