5 Test records that were broken in 2016

#4 Alastair Cook closing down on Sachin Tendulkar’s records

The numbers stacked up by Sachin Tendulkar over a 24-year career might seem unassailable at the moment, but England captain Alastair Cook is surely set to give the Little Master a challenge or two. In ten straight years, Cook’s relentless hunger for runs has seen him break records aplenty, quicker than others.

The 10,000 run mark, introduced first by Sunil Gavaskar, has since been broken by eleven gentlemen. Cook became the youngest, at 31 years and 157 days, to join the club, beating the previous record set by Tendulkar, at 31 years and 326 days, against Pakistan in Kolkata, 2005. He, however, took 229 innings to reach the landmark, while the Indian batsman took 195.

New Zealand’s Kane Williamson also looks set to challenge a few long-standing records in the future. He became the youngest, at 25 years and 91 days, to score a century against all nine-Test playing nations. If that was not convincing enough, he has taken the fewest number of innings to get to the milestone.