Joe Root Test Centuries: Complete List of 36 Brilliant Test Centuries Scored by England’s Golden Boy

Joe Root has scored 36 Test centuries, becoming England’s leading century-scorer and a modern legend in red-ball cricket.

Story Highlights:

• Root has 21 domestic and 15 overseas centuries to his name, apart from 70 Test wickets, including a five-wicket haul in an innings against India in 2021.
• Joe Root has scored 36 Test centuries and over 12,000 runs, making him England’s top run-scorer in Tests with an average of over 50.
• He has 6 double centuries, 25 tons in wins, and 10 centuries against India—his most dominant opponent.

Joe Root has not only maintained a reputation for being the major foundation of the England batting rank since the beginning of his illustrious Test career. He leads the second-highest cumulative run-scoring table in England, and he has overcome 12,000 runs as well as earned 36 centuries in the format, a mark outdone by two other Englishmen since the Second World War.

Root, nicknamed The Golden Boy, has played over 140 Test matches representing England, making him the 15th Englishman and 70th player to score the feat across the world. Over the 151 Tests, he has scored 12,000-plus runs, a record by an English batsman in Tests, at an average of more than 50.

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Root had begun his Test life in 2012, and a year later he got his shining moment against New Zealand, making his first century. Surprisingly, India has been Root’s most prolific adversary, with the venue being the scene of ten of his 36 centuries.

These 36 tonnes can be complemented with Root getting 64 fifties during red-ball international games. He has six of the 36 hundreds that are a double century, with his best personal score of 254, scored against Pakistan at Old Trafford in 2016.

Even more, the scope of this work by Root is amplified by the fact that these runs have been acquired in the context. Twenty-five of his 36 Joe Root Test centuries were delivered in victories, seven in drawn matches, and just four in defeats—two against India (in 2021 and 2024), one against New Zealand (2023), and one in the 2023 Ashes against Australia.

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At a geographical level, 15 of Root’s 36 Test hundreds have been put together abroad, and 21 have taken place in England. Among the home centuries, seven of them were blasted at the iconic Lord’s Ground, five of them in the city of Trent Bridge, and two at the Galle venue in Sri Lanka.

Root, at the age of fifty-three years, is often underrated in terms of his competency in the bowling domain. In his 150 Test matches, he has taken 70 dismissals, and his best performance was in Ahmedabad in 2021, where he took 5 wickets for 8 runs – his only five-wicket haul.

Joe Root Test centuries list

No.	Final Score	Opponent	Venue	Date	Result
1	104	New Zealand	Headingley, Leeds	24 May, 2013	Won
2	180	Australia	Lord’s, London	18 July, 2013	Won
3	200*	Sri Lanka	Lord’s, London	12 June, 2014	Drawn
4	154*	India	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	9 July, 2014	Drawn
5	149*	India	The Oval, London	15 August, 2014	Won
6	182*	West Indies	National Cricket Stadium, St. George’s	21 April, 2015	Won
7	134	Australia	Sophia Gardens, Cardiff	8 July, 2015	Won
8	130	Australia	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	6 August, 2015	Won
9	110	South Africa	Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	14 January, 2016	Won
10	254	Pakistan	Old Trafford, Manchester	22 July, 2016	Won
11	124	India	Rajkot, India	9 November, 2016	Drawn
12	190	South Africa	Lord’s, London	6 July, 2017	Won
13	136	West Indies	Edgbaston, Birmingham	17 August, 2017	Won
14	125	India	The Oval, London	7 September, 2018	Won
15	124	Sri Lanka	Pallekele, Kandy	14 November, 2018	Won
16	122	West Indies	Gros Islet, St. Lucia	9 February, 2019	Won
17	226	New Zealand	Seddon Park, Hamilton	29 November, 2019	Drawn
18	228	Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	14 January, 2021	Won
19	186	Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	22 January, 2021	Won
20	218	India	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	5 February, 2021	Won
21	109	India	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	4 August, 2021	Drawn
22	180*	India	Lord’s, London	12 August, 2021	Lost
23	121	India	Headingley, Leeds	25 August, 2021	Won
24	109	West Indies	Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua	8 March, 2022	Drawn
25	153	West Indies	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown	16 March, 2022	Drawn
26	115*	New Zealand	Lord’s, London	2 June, 2022	Won
27	176	New Zealand	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	10 June, 2022	Won
28	142*	India	Edgbaston, Birmingham	1 July, 2022	Won
29	153*	New Zealand	Basin Reserve, Wellington	24 February, 2023	Lost
30	118*	Australia	Edgbaston, Birmingham	16 June, 2023	Lost
31	122	India	JSCA Stadium, Ranchi	23 February, 2024	Lost
32	122	West Indies	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	21 July, 2024	Won
33	143	Sri Lanka	Lord’s, London	29 August, 2024	Won
34	103	Sri Lanka	Lord’s, London	31 August, 2024	Won
35	262	Pakistan	Multan Cricket Ground, Multan	9 October, 2024	Won
36	106	New Zealand	Basin Reserve, Wellington	8 December, 2024	Won