Follow UsJoe Root became the first Englishman to reach the milestone of 7000 ODI runs when he smashed his 18th ODI century, batting against West Indies in the second ODI on June 1 at the Sofia Gardens in Cardiff.
As soon as he hit his 84th run, Root became the first English player to cross the 7000 milestone. En route, he also became the highest run-scorer in ODIs for the country, having already reached that milestone in Tests. He has 13,006 Test runs to his name with 36 hundreds.
Root broke former England skipper Eoin Morgan’s record for being the highest scorer in the country's ODI history.
7028* - Joe Root
6957 - Eoin Morgan
5416 - Ian Bell
5233 - Jos Buttler
5092 - Paul Collingwood
Chasing 309 to win, Root held one end up even as wickets kept falling at the other end. On his way to his hundred, Root added 85 off 61 balls for the third wicket with skipper Harry Brook and then 40 off 60 balls with Jacob Bethell.
While writing, Root had already added 143 off 121 balls, and was looking all set to take the team home. In the process of achieving all those milestones, Root also went past after his highest ODI score of 133, batting at 147 off 127 balls while writing the copy.
Root, who now has 18 ODI centuries, also leads the charts in terms of the most ODI centuries in England. He now has nine tons in England, going past Marcus Trescothick's eight ODI tons in England.
9 - Joe Root*
8 - Marcus Trescothick
7 - Jonny Bairstow
7 - Rohit Sharma
6 - Eoin Morgan
6 - Jason Roy