AN Cook now owns the record for most nineties amongst the England batsmen and also amongst the England opening batsmen. His 96 in the ongoing second test at Lord’s between England and West Indies represent his seventh ninety. It was also his seventh ninety while opening the innings for England. He went past G Boycott who had scored six nineties. G Boycott’s six nineties were scored when he opened the innings for England. The nineties scored by these two batsmen are listed below

 

AN Cook
No	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	94	1	v West Indies	Bridgetown	26 Feb 2009
2	95	1	v Australia	Lord’s	16 Jul 2009
3	96	1	v Sri Lanka	Lord’s	03 Jun 2011
4	94	2	v Pakistan	Abu Dhabi	25 Jan 2012
5	94	2	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (PSS)	03 Apr 2012
6	95	1	v India	Southampton	27 Jul 2014
7	96	2	v Australia	Lord’s	16 Jul 2015
G Boycott
No	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	90	2	v West Indies	Bridgetown	29 Feb 1968
2	92	3	v New Zealand	Lord’s	21 Jun 1973
3	97	2	v West Indies	The Oval	26 Jul 1973
4	93	3	v West Indies	Port of Spain	02 Feb 1974
5	99	1	v West Indies	Port of Spain	30 Mar 1974
6	99*	4	v Australia	Perth	14 Dec 1979