Root regrets 'car crash' mic drop celebration after century at Headingley

"You'd think that if you were going to do a celebration like that it would be after you've smacked it 30 yards out of the park. It was just an absolute car crash. Oh well," he said

^{England batsman Joe Root celebrates his century at Headingley}

Joe Root says he "immediately regretted" his mic drop reaction to reaching his century against India at Headingley on Tuesday.

Root is not the first batsman in the game to pull out the much-discussed celebration - both Grant Elliott and Jack Brooks have been exponents in the not-so-distant past - but it is the England Test captain's effort which has got the cricket world talking.

And now the Yorkshireman wishes he had never done what he regards as the "most embarrassing thing" he has ever done.

"Oh no, don't mention that," he was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail. "It's something I immediately regretted. I'm not going to hear the end of it. Honestly.

"It was literally the most embarrassing thing I've done. I don't think it's the last I'll hear about it from the group. They've been hammering me.

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"You'd think that if you were going to do a celebration like that it would be after you've smacked it 30 yards out of the park. It was just an absolute car crash. Oh well."

Car-crash celebration or not, there was due cause for Root to act as he did.

The ton against India was his second in a row in one-day internationals and his 13th for his country in all in the format. No one has scored more.

"I've not felt like I've been playing poorly or that there have been any glaring mistakes in my game," he said. 

"And that's why it's been frustrating. But I had a think about how I wanted to go about things in this series and went back to what has held me in good stead."