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

He is back in the groove as leader, but the callow nature of this team has forced a fresh approach as Stokes’s stand-inThere 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 ball into his pad and then into the air, and without even looking to see what happened next Ollie Robinson sprinted into his captain’s embrace. It is a high‑