| Country | Matches | Inns | Runs | Avg | High Score | 100s/50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 14 | 27 | 892 | 35.68 | 89 | 0/9 |
| Bangladesh | 2 | 4 | 98 | 24.5 | 56 | 0/1 |
| England | 84 | 147 | 7329 | 55.52 | 254 | 24/33 |
| India | 15 | 30 | 1272 | 45.42 | 218 | 3/6 |
| New Zealand | 12 | 22 | 1006 | 50.3 | 226 | 3/5 |
| Pakistan | 6 | 10 | 477 | 47.7 | 262 | 1/1 |
| South Africa | 8 | 15 | 703 | 50.21 | 110 | 1/6 |
| Sri Lanka | 5 | 10 | 655 | 65.5 | 228 | 3/0 |
| U.A.E. | 3 | 6 | 287 | 57.4 | 88 | 0/3 |
| West Indies | 9 | 17 | 824 | 51.5 | 182* | 4/2 |
| Overall | 158 | 288 | 13543 | 51.29 | 262 | 39/66 |
Key Insights – Analyzing Root’s Performance in Different Conditions
Joe Root is the lead run-scorer in Tests played in England. Alastair Cook and Graham Gooch are the only other batters with more than 5000 runs in England. Find out who are the visiting batters with most Test runs in England soil here.
Root is the only batter to smash more than 20 centuries on English soil. His fifty-plus scores are also the most, with no other batter having more than 50. Find out all about Joe Root’s Test centuries here.
2408 of his home runs came as England’s captain. These are the second-most runs by a Test skipper in England, behind Gooch’s 2820.
Outside of home, Root has found a happy hunting ground in India. His 1272 Test runs are the second-most by a visiting batter in India. This is the highest run tally by an England batter in India.
Root is one of the five English batters to score 1000-plus runs in two overseas countries. Apart from his exploits in India, the right-hander has 1006 runs in New Zealand. Root is the only visiting batter to score 1000-plus Test runs in New Zealand.
The right-hander is the only England batter to score 500-plus runs and average above 50 in five countries. He is also the only Englishman to do so in four overseas countries.
Root averages 65.50 in Sri Lanka, the highest for England in the country. He has amassed 655 runs in 10 outings, including three hundreds in Sri Lanka.
Root is the lone batter from his country to score three or more Test hundreds in five nations. If we exclude his centuries in England, then he has hundreds in four away countries, again the most by an Englishman. Find the cricketers with most away centuries here.
Root is yet to crack a century in two Test-playing nations – Australia and Bangladesh. His nine fifty-plus scores in Australia are the most by an England batter without a century.
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