Ashes: Milestone man Joe Root!

England`s Joe Root reacts as he walks off the ground after being dismissed on day two of the fifth Ashes cricket Test match between Australia and England at the SCG in Sydney. Pic/AFP

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No. of Test centuries for Joe Root, putting him alongside Ricky Ponting and behind only Jacques Kallis (45) and Sachin Tendulkar (51)

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No. of 150-plus scores for Root in Tests - the most by an England player and the fifth-highest overall

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No. of Test tons by Root since 2021, way ahead of Kane Williamson, Steve Smith, Shubman Gill and Harry Brook, who have all scored 10 each

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No. of international tons for Root (41 in Tests and 19 in ODIs). He is only the sixth player to reach this milestone

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Consecutive number of times Root has converted his 50-plus scores into centuries - the first such instance in his career

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No. of runs required by Root (13,937) to go past Sachin Tendulkar's all-time Test record of 15,921

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Joe Root is the fourth Englishman to score multiple centuries in a single away Ashes tour in Australia