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IND vs ENG 5th Test: England's star Test batter Joe Root had scripted history on the fourth day of the fifth Test match as he broke the record of scoring the most hundreds at home Test matches. Root's hundred during the second innings of the fifth Test match at the Oval was also his 24th hundred in the longest format at their backyard, and that's one more than Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, and Mahela Jayawardene's record of smashing 23 Test hundreds at home.

Root brought up his hundred by scoring two runs on the first ball of the 69th over.

Most 100s in Tests at home

PLAYER TEAM 100s (AT HOME) 100s (OVERALL)
Joe Root England 24* 39
Jacques Kallis South Africa 23 45
Ricky Ponting Australia 23 41
Mahela Jayawardene Sri Lanka 23 34
Sachin Tendulkar India 22 51
Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka 22 38

Most 100s vs one team in Tests at home

PLAYER COUNTRY 100s AGAINST VENUE
Joe Root England 10 India England
Don Bradman Australia 8 England Australia
Steve Smith Australia 7 India Australia
Ricky Ponting Australia 7 India Australia

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With this hundred, Joe Root also surpassed Jack Hobbs' tally of smashing 12 Test hundreds against a single team. In his playing career, Hobbs had smashed 12 Test hundreds against Australia, and Root had scored 13 hundreds under his kitty against the Men in Blue in the longest format.

Don Bradman is the only other batter to have smashed more hundreds against a single team in this format, which is more than Root.

After playing in 20 Test matches against India in England, Root has hit 10 centuries. No other batter has hit more than eight Test hundreds at their backyard against a single team.

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Most 50-plus scores against an opponent in home Tests

17 – Sir Don Bradman (Australia) vs England

16 – Herbie Taylor (South Africa) vs England

16 – Joe Root (England) vs India

As far as the list of batters to have scored hundreds in the longest format is concerned, Root has now climbed to the fourth position. He has scored 39 centuries after playing in 158 matches. Sachin Tendulkar, Jacques Kallis, and Ricky Ponting are the batters who are ahead of him in this list.

Most 100s in Tests

PLAYER TEAM MATCHES RUNS 100s
Sachin Tendulkar India 200 15,921 51
Jacques Kallis South Africa 166 13,289 45
Ricky Ponting Australia 168 13,378 41
Joe Root England 158* 13,539* 39*
Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka 134 12,400 38

At the same time during his knock, he had become the first player in the world to have scored 6000 runs during a WTC cycle and had also become the first player to have scored 5000 runs during a Test series against India thrice.

In their playing career, West Indies' Everton Weekes and Garry Sobers, Pakistan's Zaheer Abbas and Younis Khan, and Australia's Ricky Ponting had scored 500 runs during a Test series against India.