Harry Kane top scorer: Tottenham striker moves above Jamie Vardy in race for Premier League golden boot

The Tottenham and Leicester strikers are bidding to become the first Englishman to top the goal scoring charts for 16 years

Harry Kane celebrates scoring a goal against Bournemouth (GETTY IMAGES)

Harry Kane was six years old the last time an Englishmen finished the season as the Premier League top scorer.

Now the Tottenham striker is in pole position to become the next to do it. However, fellow England international Jamie Vardy is also in contention.

Kane moved top of the scoring charts with a first-half double for Tottenham against Bournemouth. It took him to 21 for the season, two ahead of Jamie Vardy.

Should either of them win the golden boot, they would be the first English player to do so since Kevin Phillips scored 30 for Sunderland during the 1999/2000 campaign. In the 22-year history of the Premier League era there have been seven English winners. As well as Phillips, Teddy Sheringham, Andy Cole and Alan Shearer (three times) won the golden boot outright. English trio Chris Sutton, Dion Dublin and Michael Owen shared it in 1997/98 and Owen had to share it three ways the following year with Dwight Yorke and Jimmy Floyd Hasslebaink.

Kevin Phillips celebrates a goal for Sunderland during the 1999/2000 season (GETTY IMAGES)

The nearest challenger to Kane and Vardy, who will by vying for starting places at this summer's Euro 2016 tournament, is Everton's Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku who is on 18 goals for the season.