Cook crosses 10,000 Test runs mark !

Alastair Cook has become the first England batsman to reach 10,000 Test runs

after reaching the milestone on the fourth afternoon of the second Test against

Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street.

Cook, who started the match on 9,980 career runs, fell five short of the landmark

when he was caught in the gully for 15 on the opening morning of the match.

But he made no mistake second-time around, the moment arriving at 3.15pm

when he clipped Nuwan Pradeep off his pads for four.   

At 31 years and 157 days, the youngest by five months.

The previous holder of that record, Sachin Tendulkar, notched his 10,000th Test run

at the age of 31 years and 326 days, against Pakistan .

Cook needs 166 more runs to surpass Gavaskar for most runs scored as an opening batsman.

He is closing in on becoming the second England batsman after Graham Gooch (5,917)

to score 5,000 Test runs in home internationals, and is set to over-take Ian Bell (13,331)

as the second-highest England run-scorer in all formats in the coming weeks. 



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