In the second innings of the second Ashes Test at Adelaide Oval, Joe Root broke the record for most runs by an England captain in a Test, passing Sir Alastair Cook.
Root has now passed Cook's Test captaincy tally of 4844 runs in his 58th match, so he's now at 4859 runs at an average of 47.63 - one match and five innings faster than Cook.
Currently ranked number one in the world, Root is having a great year with the bat. While Root's stay at the crease on Sunday was brief, he has a chance to add more runs to his tally in the new Test at Melbourne.
"Another one gone to Joe Root - I haven't got many left. He's slowly but surely edging his way into England's greatest batsman and he is pretty much there," said Cook
Earlier, during his knock of 62 in the first innings at the Adelaide Oval, Root went past Indian legends Sachin Tendulkar (1562 runs in 2010), Sunil Gavaskar (1555 runs in 1979), and former Australia captain Michael Clarke (1595 runs in 2012) to be a fourth place for most Test runs in a year.
He also became only the second captain after Graeme Smith (1656 runs in 2008) to score 1600+ runs in a year in Test cricket. The root is just behind former Pakistan batter Mohammad Yousuf, who made a jaw-dropping 1788 in just 11 Tests in 2006 at an average of 99.33, followed by West Indies legend Viv Richards, who scored 1710 runs in 11 Tests at an average of 90.00 in 1976 and former South Africa skipper Graeme Smith, who amassed 1656 runs in 15 innings at an average of 72.
The 30-year-old Root is already the highest run-scoring England player in a single calendar year of Test cricket, having gone past former captain Michael Vaughan's 1871 runs in 2002 during the first Ashes Test in Brisbane.