Joe Root forgets England’s toils and refinds secret to batting immortality | Jonathan Liew

The put-upon captain might have faded away in his fifth year in the job but instead he has played some of his greatest inningsIf you wanted, you could still probably pick a few holes. He edged a few through the slips. He got bogged down a little in the 90s, and then again in the 150s. He didn’t hit a single six. Does an innings even still count these days if it isn’t accompanied by a big flashing bar along the bottom of the screen screaming “OH YEAH”? Most unforgivably of