Alastair Cooked reached 7000 Test Runs at Younger Age than Anyone Else

Alastair Cook reached 7000 Test runs at a younger age than anyone else - even Sachin Tendulkar? Alastair Cook reached 7000 runs last December, in his 86th Test, about a fortnight short of his 28th birthday. Sachin Tendulkar was seven months... older when he reached 7000, in his 85th Test, in November 2001. The only others to reach 7000 Test runs before turning 30 are Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis, who were both 29. Cook currently has 7117 runs in 87 Tests: Tendulkar, the only man so far to reach 8000 before his 30th birthday, got there in May 2002, in his 96th match, a month after turning 29.