Joe Root England’s Fourth Youngest Double Centurion

Joe Root is fourth on the list of youngest man to score a double century for England.  The other three batsmen have scored double-centuries for England at a younger age than 23-year-old Joe Root, who made 200 not out against Sri Lanka at Lord's: Len Hutton scored 364 runs v Australia at The Oval in 1938, David Gower scored 200 not out against India at Edgbaston in 1979 and Bill Edrich scored 219 v South Africa in Durban in 1938-39 were all at 22. The only younger batsmen to make Test double-centuries at Lord's were Don Bradman, who was just 21 when he made his superb 254 the innings he rated the best of all his many masterpieces - for Australia against England in 1930, and Graeme Smith, who was 22 when he hit 259 for South Africa in 2003.