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Last updated on - December 27, 2025, 4:03 PM IST
By
Sruti Thakur
Star England all-rounder Harry Brook has completed 3,000 runs in Test cricket, becoming the fastest player in history to reach the milestone in terms of balls faced.
Brook has scored 3,034 runs in 34 Tests at an average of 54.17, which includes 10 hundreds and 14 fifties in 57 innings, with a strike rate above 86.
Brook reached the 3,000-run mark in just 3,468 balls, making him the fastest to the milestone in terms of deliveries faced.
Brook is also the joint second-fastest England batter to 3,000 Test runs, matching Denis Compton's record of 57 innings.
The overall record for the quickest to the milestone by innings remains with Australia great Don Bradman, who got there in only 33 innings.
In his first Ashes series, Brook is the fifth-highest run-getter with 214 runs from seven innings, at an average of 30.57 at a strike rate above 78. His top score so far is a fifty in the opening Test at Perth.
vThe Boxing Day Test ended on the second day as England secured a convincing four-wicket victory over Australia, ending a 14-year Test win drought in Australia since 2011.
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