Joe Root scored 1,708 runs in 15 matches to become the third player in history to aggregate over 1,700 runs in Test cricket in a calendar year, joining Mohammad Yousuf and Sir Vivian Richards
Last Updated: 24/01/22 9:16am
England captain Joe Root has been named as the ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year for 2021.
Despite a testing year for the national side, the Yorkshireman scored 1,708 runs in 2021, the third-highest total on record in a calendar year.
Root registered two double centuries and a further four hundreds, including three in successive Tests against India during the summer.
“I am incredibly proud to receive this award,” said the 31-year-old, only the second Englishman to win the accolade after Sir Alastair Cook in 2011. “I am very humbled to be in the same breath as a number of wonderful players around the world and it means a huge amount to have got this award.”
New Zealand bowler Kyle Jamieson, Sri Lanka opener Dimuth Karunaratne and India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin were the other nominees.
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