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Joe Root

Joe Root appears in 40 matches with a full FairPlay scorecard (26 Oct 2025 to 29 Oct 2026). 1,873 runs in 49 innings. 15 wickets from 83 overs. 295 matches in FairPlay's recorded career data.

Player profile

Country
England
Role
Batter
Batting
Right-hand bat
Bowling
Right-arm off-break
Born
30 Dec 1990 Age 35
Recorded matches
295204 internationals

Joe Root is a batter from England with 295 matches in FairPlay's recorded data, including 204 internationals (91 Tests, 109 ODIs, 4 T20Is).

Batting: 15,594 runs across all recorded formats, with 40 hundreds and 78 fifties; the most runs came in Test cricket (7,715) and the highest recorded score is 262.

Bowling: 112 wickets in recorded matches, 53 of them in Test cricket, with 1 five-wicket haul.

Career figures by format

Summed over the seasons in FairPlay's data provider's records, mostly recent ones. Older seasons can be missing, so these totals may be lower than the official career record.

Joe Root: batting and bowling figures by format in FairPlay's recorded data
FormatMatInnsRunsHSAvgSR100/50WktsBowl avgEcon5w
Test911677,71526250.4259.226/275348.323.501
ODI1091054,62516655.0689.011/292242.596.010
T20I441065535.33111.60/1––––
T20 (league and domestic)43431,2299236.15129.80/92122.297.550
100-ball33317137627.42130.30/4628.177.980
First-class15221,20614757.4361.83/81049.103.410

Avg is runs per dismissal; SR is runs per 100 balls; Bowl avg is runs per wicket; Econ is runs per over; 5w is five or more wickets in an innings.

Joe Root at a glance

FairPlay holds 40 complete scorecards featuring Joe Root, most recently for England (T20 and shorter, one-day, first-class).

In those matches Joe Root batted 49 times for 1,873 runs at a strike rate of 73.83. The highest score was 160 off 242 balls against Australia.

With the ball: 15 wickets from 83 overs, an economy rate of 4.54. Best figures: 4 for 49 against Somerset.

How the 42 dismissals happened: caught 17, LBW 15, bowled 7, run out 2, stumped 1.

These matches were played at 21 different grounds.

Figures in FairPlay's scorecards

Batting
4971,87316044.6073.8312/3
Bowling
15836377154/494.54

Match by match

Newest first. Dates in India Standard Time. * means not out.

DateMatch
29 Oct 2026Sri Lanka v EnglandBat – · Bowl 1/35 (4)
25 Oct 2026Pakistan v EnglandBat 5 (7) · Bowl –
22 Oct 2026Sri Lanka v EnglandBat 69 (66) · Bowl –
20 Oct 2026Pakistan v EnglandBat 33 (35) · Bowl 0/12 (1)
27 Sept 2026England v Sri LankaBat 18 (37) · Bowl 1/15 (3)
24 Sept 2026England v Sri LankaBat 15 (17) · Bowl –
22 Sept 2026England v Sri LankaBat 44 (52) · Bowl –
9 Sept 2026England v PakistanBat 8 (18) & 62* (69) · Bowl –
27 Aug 2026England v PakistanBat 4 (13) & 24 (37) · Bowl –
19 Aug 2026England v PakistanBat 66 (112) · Bowl –
12 Aug 2026Welsh Fire v London SpiritBat 31 (31) · Bowl –
9 Aug 2026Sunrisers Leeds v Welsh FireBat 31 (22) · Bowl –
5 Aug 2026Manchester Super Giants v Welsh FireBat – · Bowl –
3 Aug 2026Welsh Fire v Southern BraveBat 17 (20) · Bowl –
1 Aug 2026Birmingham Phoenix v Welsh FireBat 58* (40) · Bowl –
29 Jul 2026Welsh Fire v Trent RocketsBat 5 (8) · Bowl –
25 Jul 2026Welsh Fire v MI LondonBat 29 (26) · Bowl 0/10 (0.5)
22 Jul 2026Southern Brave v Welsh FireBat 15 (15) · Bowl 0/18 (1.4)
19 Jul 2026England v IndiaBat 74* (48) · Bowl –
16 Jul 2026England v IndiaBat 99* (133) · Bowl –
14 Jul 2026England v IndiaBat 76* (76) · Bowl –
12 Jul 2026Yorkshire v NottinghamshireBat 2 (4) · Bowl 2/35 (3)
10 Jul 2026Lancashire v YorkshireBat 4 (5) · Bowl –
25 Jun 2026England v New ZealandBat 21 (46) & 18 (17) · Bowl 1/7 (3)
17 Jun 2026England v New ZealandBat 46 (57) & 77 (145) · Bowl 0/37 (7)
4 Jun 2026England v New ZealandBat 1 (8) & 8 (19) · Bowl –
15 May 2026Yorkshire v SurreyBat 44 (52) · Bowl –
1 May 2026Somerset v YorkshireBat 33 (57) & 64 (101) · Bowl 4/49 (16)
24 Apr 2026Yorkshire v SussexBat 96 (127) · Bowl 1/30 (8) & 3/67 (21)
27 Jan 2026Sri Lanka v EnglandBat 111* (108) · Bowl –
24 Jan 2026Sri Lanka v EnglandBat 75 (90) · Bowl 2/12 (2.3)
22 Jan 2026Sri Lanka v EnglandBat 61 (90) · Bowl –
4 Jan 2026Australia v EnglandBat 160 (242) & 6 (37) · Bowl 0/6 (3)
26 Dec 2025Australia v EnglandBat 0 (15) & 15 (38) · Bowl –
17 Dec 2025Australia v EnglandBat 19 (31) & 39 (63) · Bowl 0/32 (8)
4 Dec 2025Australia v EnglandBat 138* (206) & 15 (36) · Bowl –
21 Nov 2025Australia v EnglandBat 0 (7) & 8 (11) · Bowl 0/12 (1)
1 Nov 2025New Zealand v EnglandBat 2 (3) · Bowl –
29 Oct 2025New Zealand v EnglandBat 25 (34) · Bowl –
26 Oct 2025New Zealand v EnglandBat 2 (6) · Bowl –

England's next match

Australia v England, One Day International, 12 Nov 2026 at Perth Stadium.

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