Cricket World's Player of the Week - Joe Root, England

Joe Root and Harry Brook hit hundreds and then Shoaib Bashir took a 5fer to take England to a 241 run win over the West Indies, in the second Test against England at Trent Bridge on Sunday.

Root and Harry Brook hit hundreds as England made 425 in their second innings.

Root struck 122 and Brook 109, with the duo sharing a partnership of 189 after they had come together on Saturday when England were just 99 runs ahead at 140-3.

Root's century left him one shy of the England record of 33 Test hundreds held by the retired Alastair Cook.

England started Sunday's play on 248-3, already 207 runs in front.

Brook was 71 not out and Root unbeaten on 37.

Root showed there was still a place for the traditional red-ball approach, with the 33-year-old completing a 91-ball fifty.

Root's typically stylish square-driven boundary off Alzarri Joseph -- just his seventh four in 158 balls -- took him to a sedate century.

Former England captain Root then reverse-scooped Shamar Joseph over the slip cordon for an extravagant four before he was caught at short extra-cover off Holder.

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