'England's Ashes defeat caps a record-breakingly bad year'
No team has ever lost more Tests in a calendar year than the nine defeats suffered by England in 2021.
England have added one win and nine losses in their 12 Tests since, equalling Bangladesh's nine Test defeats in 2013. England had started scoring 400 again - seven times in 14 Tests up to and including their win in Chennai, having done so just once in their previous 23. Amid the almost nostalgically familiar post-mortems, it is also a little galling to consider that the two centurions in the Ashes so far - Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head - as well as the top scorer in the third Test at the MCG - Marcus Harris - have benefited from stints in the much-maligned County Championship.England batters reached 25 runs 91 times in 2021. Root converted 10 of his 18 into half-centuries, including six three-figure scores.
To give some context, in all men's Test cricket over the past five years - which have been a historically tricky period for Test batting - the overall conversion rate of 25s to 50s is 49%, and 25s to 100s is 13%. Root finished his stellar individual year with 1,708 runs, 3.22 times as many as England's next top scorer, Burns, and an unprecedented margin of superiority by a Test batter over his next most productive team-mate in a calendar year.
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