Father: Matt Root, Mother: Helen Root, Wife: Carrie Cotterell, Brother: Billy Root, Sisters: Wanda Root and Amanda Root, Son: Alfred Root, Daughter: Isabella Root
| Batting & Fielding | |||||||||||||
| Format | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct |
| Tests | 163 | 298 | 25 | 13943 | 262 | 51.07 | 24242 | 57.51 | 41 | 66 | 1492 | 46 | 216 |
| ODIs | 189 | 178 | 25 | 7577 | 166* | 49.52 | 8650 | 87.59 | 20 | 45 | 614 | 54 | 91 |
| T20Is | 32 | 30 | 5 | 893 | 90* | 35.72 | 707 | 126.30 | 0 | 5 | 92 | 16 | 18 |
| FC | 240 | 420 | 36 | 19326 | 262 | 50.32 | 33317 | 58.00 | 55 | 90 | 2132 | 59 | 273 |
| List A | 227 | 215 | 31 | 8790 | 166* | 47.77 | 10175 | 86.38 | 21 | 53 | 725 | 57 | 103 |
| T20s | 129 | 119 | 24 | 3062 | 92* | 32.23 | 2371 | 129.14 | 0 | 19 | 318 | 54 | 58 |
| Bowling | |||||||||||||
| Format | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
| Tests | 163 | 168 | 6272 | 3515 | 73 | 5/8 | 5/33 | 48.15 | 3.36 | 85.9 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| ODIs | 189 | 78 | 1770 | 1745 | 30 | 3/52 | 3/52 | 58.16 | 5.91 | 59.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T20Is | 32 | 9 | 84 | 139 | 6 | 2/9 | 2/9 | 23.16 | 9.92 | 14.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FC | 240 | 247 | 9259 | 5052 | 107 | 5/8 | 5/33 | 47.21 | 3.27 | 86.5 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| List A | 227 | 102 | 2333 | 2222 | 43 | 3/52 | 3/52 | 51.67 | 5.71 | 54.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T20s | 129 | 60 | 732 | 982 | 35 | 2/7 | 2/7 | 28.05 | 8.04 | 20.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
