Top 5 performers from England vs Pakistan ODI series

Joe Root

With nearly four months of cricket left in the calendar year, Joe Root already has nearly 800 runs and is closing in on 1,000 ODI runs in 2016. After a brilliant start to the year in the series against South Africa, Root merely continued his good form in the Pakistan series, finished as the second-leading run scorer.

The final match in Cardiff was the first one of the series in which he ended with a single digit score. After starting the series with a 61, he scored back-to-back 80s in Lord’s and Nottingham which sealed the series for his side. Although his form slightly tailed off in the final two ODIs where he combined for just 39 runs, his overall tally in the series and the year so far are nothing short of amazing.

His tally of 274 runs from five matches with three fifties and an average of 54.8 and a strike rate in excess of 90 helped his ODI tally for the year to 796 runs in 15 matches at the end of the ODI series. And it won’t be surprising if he finished the year as the leading run-getter in ODIs if he keeps up his incredible form.