Captain Root 2.0: more fun but a different kind of burden in leadership reboot | Simon Burnton

He is back in the groove as skipper, but callow nature of this team has forced a fresh approach as Stokes’s stand-in There was a moment, late on the first day at Lord’s, of the sort that makes captaincy instantly worthwhile: Ben Stokes chose to bring Emilio Gay in at short leg, Kane Williamson immediately edged the bal