Joe Root isn’t too pleased with the team’s performance in the ongoing Ashes 2021-22 series. Amidst the lacklustre performance by the team, questions have been raised over Joe Root’s leadership. The England skipper, too, believes that he is answerable to that in the wake of England’s poor showing. Root further asserted that he will perform to the best of his abilities in the final two matches of the series.
“I’ll look at my future beyond this tour at the end of it. I think there are questions for me to answer, (but) I don’t think that’s a distraction that should be around the group, or I should be wasting energy on right now. I need to make sure I throw everything I can into these two games.”
“I think I owe that to this team and to the players, and that will give us the best chance of getting the results we desire. All I can control right now is the next two games.”
Joe Root has scored the most runs in the series thus far. In three Tests, he has 253 runs to his name at an average of 42.17. A lot of members of the England contingent have been contracted with Covid-19 and are currently in quarantine. Root believes that the current scenario is nothing but an opportunity for the team to work together as a group.
“With the amount of coaches we have had missing, it has made things slightly disjointed and challenging, but it is an opportunity for us as a group to come together and work together.”
“Human beings work together and help each other, and we tried to prepare as well as we can do and stand up in a bit of adversity, and we must use that in a positive way when we get out on the field. It should absolutely bring us together.”
England will play the fourth Test of the Ashes 2021-22 series against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground from 5th to 9th January 2022.
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