page_title: List of England Test cricket records
section_title: Best career economy rate
hierarchical_section_title: List of England Test cricket records / Individual records / Bowling records / Best career economy rate
caption_attribution_description: Sport, Cricket, Circa 1895, William Attewell, Nottinghamshire (1881-1899) and England
context_page_description: Test cricket is the oldest form of cricket played at international level. A Test match is scheduled to take place over a period of five days, and is played by teams representing full member nations of the International Cricket Council. England was a founding member of the ICC, having played the first Test match against Australia in March 1877 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. They have played a total of 1,022 matches, the most by any Test playing team.
  Opening batsman and former captain Alastair Cook holds several England Test cricket records. Playing between 2006 and 2018, he scored 12,472 runs, making him the only England player to score 10,000 Test runs. He scored a record 57 half-centuries and 33 centuries. As a slip fielder, Cook has also taken the most catches for England with 175 and holds the England record for the most catches taken in a Test series with 13. Captaining his side from 2010 until he stood down in 2016, Cook holds the record for the most matches played as English skipper with 59, the Test record for the most consecutive matches played with 159 and the record for the most matches played for England with 161.
context_section_description: A bowler's economy rate is the total number of runs they have conceded divided by the number of overs they have bowled.
  English bowler William Attewell, who played 10 Tests between 1884 and 1892, holds the Test record for the best career economy rate with 1.31. Cliff Gladwin, with a rate of 1.60 runs per over conceded over his 8-match Test career, is second on the list.
caption: William Attewell finished his career with an economy rate of 1.31, a Test cricket record.[166]
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