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Joe Root
Only six England captains - Ivo Bligh, Douglas Jardine, Raymond Illingworth, Mike Brearley, Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss - have managed to win the Ashes Down Under in the last 135 years and Joe Root is in a pursuit to enter the league of extraordinary gentlemen.
The man who took the reins of English cricket from Alastair Cook, with 4560 runs in 49 matches, Root is the second highest Test run-scorer in last four years. With 11 hundreds and 29 fifties, the number three batsman's highest Test score of 254 came after Tendulkar's retirement.
Root scored 254 runs in the first innings of a 2016 Test against Pakistan at Manchester and followed it up by an unbeaten 71 to lead England to a massive 330-run win.
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