Overview

• The five-match Test series between India and England begins on June 20 in Leeds.
• Joe Root enters the series with 2,846 Test runs scored against India, the most by any batter, needing 154 more to reach 3,000.
• Root also has 13,006 runs in his Test career and can pass Ricky Ponting’s 13,378 runs to become cricket’s second-highest run-scorer with 373 runs in the series.
• Sachin Tendulkar leads Indian batsmen with 2,535 runs in 32 Tests against England, followed by Sunil Gavaskar’s 2,483.
• Virat Kohli (1,991 runs), Rahul Dravid (1,950 runs) and Gundappa Viswanath (1,880 runs) complete the top five for India against England in Test cricket.