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Wisden Cricketer of the Year and an MBE frame Joe Root's career, which spans Yorkshire, England and Big Bash League cricket with Sydney Thunder.
Root at a glance
Two honours stand out on Joe Root's cricketing CV: Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2014, and a Member of the Order of the British Empire. The Wisden award came five years after the start of a Yorkshire career dating to 2009, and not long after a Test debut against India in December 2012. Honours like these follow sustained output rather than one innings, and the recognition arrived while he was still in his early twenties.
Root is thirty-five, a top-order batter with Yorkshire and an England international, and he also turns out for Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League. One-day international cricket has given him 192 matches and 7,826 runs. He bowls right-arm off break when needed, but batting is where his value sits. Yorkshire and England both use him high in the order.
ODI career
Source: Wikipedia infobox (ESPNcricinfo), 30 AugustClubs
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His role is a top-order batter, so he typically walks out early in an innings rather than lower down.
He was born on 30 December 1990, which makes him 35 years old.
In one-day internationals he has made 7,826 runs, at an average of 51.15.
County cricket comes with Yorkshire, international duty with England, and he also turns out for Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League.
Root was born in Dore in the United Kingdom, and he has gone on to play international cricket for England.