Now in 157 Tests, Root has scored 13,380 runs in 286 innings at an average of 51.26, with 38 centuries and 66 fifties. His best score is 262. Root also tied Sri Lankan great Kumar Sangakkara (38 tons) for joint fourth-most centuries in the longer format, now standing only behind Ponting (41), South Africa's Jacques Kallis (45) and Tendulkar (51).