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Fred Root was born in Somercotes , Derbyshire, and played his early first-class cricket for that county, making his debut in 1910. He played for five seasons for Derbyshire before cricket was suspended in England because of World War I. Root was hit in the chest while serving as a despatch rider, but recovered and resumed his cricketing career after the war.

Moving to Worcestershire in 1921, Root became an exponent of the leg theory style of bowling, and achieved great success with it, taking at least 100 first-class wickets in every season from 1923 to 19311931 is the common year starting on Thursday. see link for calendar) Events January January 4 Female aviator Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa January 6 Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. January 22 Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the inclusive. Eight times he topped the English bowling averageBowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket. A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowler divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the avs, and in 1925Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 See also 1925 in aviation 1925 in film 1925 in literature 1925 in mu he took 207 wickets for Worcestershire, which remains a county record. Root also still holds the Worcestershire record for an innings analysis, having taken 9-23 against LancashireLancashire County Cricket Club is a first-class cricket club based at Old Trafford cricket ground, Manchester External links First Class cricket teams. in 1931.

Although first and foremost a bowlerA bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. A bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder. There are several types of bowlers and most teams will have a variety available in the team to take adva, Root was also a useful batsmanCricket A batsman in the sport of cricket is a player whose speciality in the game is batting. The skills required to be a good batsman vary with the type of cricket game being played and the situation of the game. Generally a batsman is required to score, and in 1928Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 See also 1928 in aviation 1928 in film 1928 in literature 1928 in mu did the "double" of scoring 1000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the same season. However, he only once scored a first-class centuryA century is one hundred of something, usually one hundred consecutive years, or 100 runs in cricket, or a bicycle ride of 100 miles in a day. In all dating systems, Centuries are numbered ordinally. Thus, one speaks of the First Century of the Common Era.

Root played three Test matches for England, all against Australia in 1926. He had only moderate success and was not selected for his country again. However, he remained a keen observer of the international game, and was unimpressed by Australian protests against Bodyline, saying that their players should stick to playing with tennis balls if they could not learn how to play it.

After his retirement from the first-class game in 1933, Root spent some time as coach to Leicestershire , and also continued to play club cricket in the Lancashire League. He also wrote about cricket.

Root died in a Wolverhampton hospital in 1954.