Joe Root admits he felt he "owed" England a century after enduring a lean run of form across the past two Test series' against South Africa and Pakistan.
Root was in the midst of his longest run without a hundred in more than two years when he came to the crease with England in trouble after losing early wickets in the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington.
However, he and Harry Brook proceeded to share a mammoth 302-run partnership that put England firmly in control of the Test and allowed captain Ben Stokes to declare. While Brook top scored with an excellent 186, his fourth century in just six Tests, Root's unbeaten 153 marked a welcome return to form for the former captain.
