'It puts things in perspective': England supporting Stokes after father's illness

Root says Stokes and family must get ‘all the support they can’Ged Stokes in critical condition with all-rounder at his bedside
England’s preparations for the Test series continue to be nightmarish. The grimmest news came on Christmas Eve when it was announced that Ben Stokes’s father, in Johannesburg to watch the Test on Boxing Day, was in “a critical condition” in hospital. Later in the day it transpired that Chris Woakes had become another victim of the flu