Joe Root became the second Englishman to score 10,000 Test runs after scoring a brilliant match winning hundred in the first Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's.
In doing so, Root became just the 14th player ever to reach the milestone and the joint-youngest along with Sir Alastair Cook. However, cricket statistician Andrew Samson, who previously worked for BBC Test Match Special, has revealed Cook actually reached the milestone quicker than Root due to leap years.
The pair were both exactly 31 years and 157 days old when they scored their 10,000th Test run, but in terms of days Cook was 11,479 days old while Root was 11,480 days old. "Root did not have an extra leap day," Samson explained in a tweet.
