Joe Root breaks record for most England test centuries

Joe Root has overtaken Sir Alistair Cook for the most test centuries from an England batsman. Daniel Wales reports.

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00:00England batsman Joe Root hit his 134th test century for England against Sri Lanka on Saturday

00:07to become England's record holder for the most amount of centuries in the format.

00:12He overtook Sir Alistair Cooke for the most centuries from an England batsman and in doing

00:17so cemented himself as one of the all-time cricketing greats from this country.

00:22Some such as Michael Vaughan are now describing Root as the greatest ever from England to

00:27take his place at the crease.

00:30This later century from Root helped England on their way to winning once again against

00:34Sri Lanka in this current test series to claim an overall 2-0 win in what is England's second

00:40test series of the summer.

00:42England then to a Pakistan in a three-game series in October.

00:47At this stage it remains to be seen as to whether Captain Ben Stokes will return for

00:52the trip to Pakistan or whether Ollie Pope will continue his stand-in captaincy.