40. 103 v Sri Lanka, Lord's, August 29-31, 2024
Root's fastest Test hundred, and his least challenging. Ollie Pope chose not to enforce the follow on, so this was about giving the bowlers some rest and ensuring nothing catastrophic happened. Mission accomplished, and Nº34 achieved.
39. 106 v New Zealand, Wellington, December 6-8, 2024
The game was pretty much already won, England effectively 351-2 when Root came in, but this was still a knock to seal arguably England's most impressive overseas series win in three years, and their first in New Zealand since 2007/08.
38. 136 v West Indies, Edgbaston, August 17-19, 2017
England were 39-2 at one point, and West Indies would later show at Headingley that they weren't actually terrible, but the tourists’ efforts in the first Test,…
