Stats: Alastair Cook joins Sachin and Dravid with 1000 Test runs against 7 teams

Thus he equalled the record of 1000 Test runs against most oppositions, jointly held by Indian players Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.

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England’s Alastair Cook during day three of the First Investec Test match. (Photo by Nigel French/PA Images via Getty Images)

Alastair Cook had a calm start in his first Test after stepping down as England’s Test captain scoring just 3 runs in the first innings. However, the England opener had a pretty good outing in the second innings as he scored an unbeaten fifty on day 3 and completed his 1000 Test runs against South Africa.

South Africa are the 7th opposition against whom Cook aggregates over 1000 runs in the Test cricket. He is yet to score 1000 runs in Tests against Bangladesh (490 runs) whereas he is yet to play against Zimbabwe in any format of International cricket.

Thus he equalled the record of 1000 Test runs against most oppositions, jointly held by Indian legends Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. Cook has a decent chance to surpass the both Sachin and Dravid but England needs to play a handy number of games against Bangladesh and Cook has to feature in those before he retires.

So far, only Marvan Atapattu against Zimbabwe has scored over 1000 runs while Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan have done it against Bangladesh. Sachin and Dravid missed out to complete the milestone against Zimbabwe by a whisker as they scored 979 and 918 runs respectively against them in Tests. Sachin also had a chance against Bangladesh as he scored 897 runs against them.

1000+ runs against most oppositions in Test cricket:

PlayerTeamNumber of opponents
Rahul DravidIndia7
Sachin TendulkarIndia7
Alastair CookEngland7
Mahela JayawardeneSri Lanka6
Ricky PontingAustralia6
Shivnarine ChanderpaulWest Indies6
Jaques KallisSouth Africa6
Brian LaraWest Indies6

 

Jacques Kallis closely missed out against Sri Lanka as he could score only 894 runs vs them in 25 innings while Ricky Ponting’s margin was just 25 runs against Sri Lanka. Brian Lara managed to aggregate only 704 against New Zealand.

Chanderpaul had a chance of scoring 1000+ runs against 8 teams but ended up with getting past the mark only against 6 as he scored 986 runs and 897 runs over Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively. Though Jayawardene aggregated 1000 runs over Bangladesh, he failed to replicate that against West Indies (748) and Australia (969).

Players with 1000+ runs against 7 oppositions:

PlayerTeamOppositionMatchesInnsRunsHSAvg100s50s
Sachin TendulkarIndiaAustralia39743630241*551116
England3253253519351.73713
New Zealand2439159521746.9148
Pakistan18271057194*42.2827
South Africa2545174116942.4675
Sri Lanka2536199520360.4596
West Indies2132163017954.33310
Rahul DravidIndiaAustralia3362216623338.67213
England2137195021760.9378
New Zealand1528165922263.866
Pakistan1526123627053.7353
South Africa2140125214833.8325
Sri Lanka2032150817748.6439
West Indies2338197814663.8513
Alastair CookEnglandAustralia30552117235*39.2411
India2545210429450.0968
New Zealand1323102416244.5234
Pakistan1833160226350.0657
South Africa16*30*1057*11836.44*28*
Sri Lanka1628129013353.7537
West Indies1730143516057.458

 

(Stats as on July 8, 2017)

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