Nasser Hussain believes Joe Root is the best England batter he has ever seen, ranking him above the likes of Graham Gooch, Sir Alastair Cook, David Gower and Kevin Pietersen.
Root recently became just the 14th player to score 10,000 Test match runs, reaching the milestone with a brilliant match winning hundred in the first Test against New Zealand. He then followed that up with a stunning 176 in the second Test, continuing a glorious run of form that has seen him score ten Test centuries since the start of 2021.
And Hussain believes Root will go on to surpass Cook as England's all-time leading Test run scorer. Having been asked to rank the five best ever English batters, Hussain chose Root as the greatest.
