Joe Root, who now has 11,940 Test runs, has also become the eighth highest run-scorer in Test cricket, overtaking Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene (11,814) and West Indies' Shivnarine Chanderpaul (11,867).

New Delhi: Former captain Michael Vaughan has hailed Joe Root as a special batsman and predicted he could surpass Sachin Tendulkar's record for the highest runs by a batsman in the history of men's Test cricket.

On Sunday, Root scored 122 off 178 balls, his 32nd Test century, as England beat the West Indies by 241 runs in Nottingham to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

Root, who now has 11,940 Test runs, has become the eighth highest run-scorer in Test cricket, overtaking Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene (11,814) and West Indies' Shivnarine Chanderpaul (11,867).

“Joe Root will become England's highest run-scorer in the next few months and he is truly special enough to overtake Sachin Tendulkar. As a rock, Root is clearly key and I like that he kept the reverse-scoop in the locker until he got past 100 and England's lead was huge.

“In these conditions against an attack like West Indies, you expect a century from him. He missed in the first innings but was determined to get it right in the second innings. He was never going to make the same mistakes,” Vaughan wrote in a column for The Telegraph.

He praised right-hander Harry Brooke for his maiden Test century on home soil, but advised him to do something about his problems with the short ball. “Then there's Harry Brooke, who is going to give audiences so many 'I was there' moments in the years to come. He will play innings and hits that will make you feel “wow”. I've seen players time and time again, but I'm not sure I've seen anyone play aggressive shots long enough to make them look so easy. Stability, trigger, hand high, wrist bent.

“There's a bit of Kevin Pietersen in there, jaw-dropping ability. Darren Lehmann has coached some serious players and tweeted on Sunday that he was in the top five players he bowled to, along with Steve Smith, Rohit Sharma, AB de Villiers and Kumar Sangakkara. It is special company to keep.

“The short ball is his challenge, but I don't really think he has a weakness in front of him. He's just tackling a bit, because that's the obvious way to bowl someone who's aggressive. I don't think it's like Craig Brathwaite, who has a problem with short stuff, flicking it in the air from armpit height.

“Brooke has come out badly at times, but I think that's just his over-aggressiveness. I see him at the nets every morning in a Test match and he's flabbergasted by the short ball, so he's obviously thinking about it. In Australia, he has to learn to duck and swing sometimes, because the boundaries are big and the pitches are quick,” he concluded.