The Ashes 2023: Active players with the highest run totals in the Ashes

Steve Smith indeed holds the record for the most runs in the Ashes among active players.

England will take on Australia in five Test matches this summer, scheduled from 16 june will be tightly packed into 46 days across June and July.Batters can play an important role in deciding the fate of the teams. Let’s us look at the top run scorer among the active players.

  1. Steve Smith, one of Australia’s cricketing greats, holds the distinction of being the leading run-scorer in the Ashes among active players. His dominance in the 2017/18 and 2019 Ashes series, where he consistently scored centuries and maintained an average of over 100, cemented his reputation as a formidable batsman. Overall, he has scored 3044 runs in Ashes to date.
  2. Former English skipper Joe Root Occupies the 2nd spot. The Yorkshireman has stacked up 2,016 runs in 29 matches. He averages a modest 38.76, compared to Smith’s 59.68. He has three centuries to go along with 16 fifties. Nonetheless, firmly established among the modern game’s “Big Four” batsmen (Root, Smith, Virat Kohli, and Kane Williamson), these were years of easy scoring, Root with an aggregate of 2016 runs in the Ashes comes second in our list of active players with most runs in the Ashes.
  3. David Warner comes 3rd in our list of most runs in the Ashes among active players. He has now batted in 50 Ashes innings and has scored 1,888 runs with the help of three centuries and 14 half-centuries. In 25 Ashes innings at home, Warner’s 1,237 runs have come at an impressive average of 53.78 including three centuries and seven half-centuries.
  4. Ben Stokes comes at No.4. Not many people will forget what he did with the bat in the previous Ashes series. His heroic knock of 135 runs off 219 deliveries in the third Test of the 2019 Ashes series is unquestionably one of the best in Test Cricket history. Among active players, the English all-rounder Ben Stokes has the fourth-most Ashes runs, with a total of 1157 runs.
  5. Jonny Bairstow leaves Broad behind to come fifth-highest score in the list. He hasn’t had a great year with the bat in Test Cricket in 2021. In 8 Tests, he has managed to score 351 runs at an average of 25.07. Overall, Bairstow has managed to score 1084 runs in the Ashes, which is the fifth-highest among active players.