In a sign of the hold the hosts have over him, Joe Root has reshaped his practice to prepare him for the examination he will face from Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and co. in the Boxing Day Test. cricket BoxingDayTest theagesport
Joe Root has taken a leaf out of the playbook of the man who dethroned him as the world’s No.1 Test batter, after an England crisis meeting in which his dismissals were effectively labelled as soft.
Taking throwdowns during an optional session three days out from the marquee fixture, Root worked to get his bat through on a straighter line to eliminate the risk of edging balls pitched on or just outside his off stump to catchers behind him. Using a marker as fourth stump is, presumably, an aid to remind Root of the need to suppress his urge to hit the ball.With their tour on the verge of ruin, England’s players and coaching staff held a robust meeting on Monday night in which coach Chris Silverwood made his charges watch 14 of the team’s 20 dismissals, querying why they hit balls that were better off leaving.
“A lot of our dismissals were soft ones, in the sense we could have left them. That doesn’t mean we go out to leave balls.
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