Joe Root struck his 33rd century in the Lord’s Test against Sri Lanka.
The England batter breached the triple-figure mark off 162 balls.
With the hundred, Root equalled a monumental feat of Alastair Cook.
The duo holds the record for most Test centuries by an England batter.
Root needed 16 matches less than Cook to complete 33 Test centuries.
Root is currently 10th on the list of all-time century makers in Tests.
The 33-year-old is the only active player in the elite list.
Sachin Tendulkar tops the charts, having scored 51 hundreds in 200 Tests.
Root recently became the 7th-highest Test run-scorer of all time.
He has aggregated 12,131 runs in the longest format.