Updates from the second day’s play at the Oval
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Simon Burnton was focused on the old-new captain.
Would we once again see the Root who led and often carried the team between 2017 and 2022, a new Root reshaped by four years spent working with Brendon McCullum? Or a Root who – as Stokes’s stand-in – felt obliged to attempt an impersonation?
It’s increasingly hard to say what’s going on behind those shades. The man’s the Anna Wintour of the wicket.
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