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Joe Root gave Ben Stokes a heartfelt speech and a bottle of wine after Stokes’s final ODI for England. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images/Reuters

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In the Durham Riverside dressing room Joe Root speaks softly, haltingly, a white towel rolled and draped around his slender shoulders. “Some of the things you’ve achieved in your career have been extraordinary.”