Joe Root wants his faltering Test team to grow a new backbone that doesn’t rely on the wicket-taking largesse of Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad.
And he is hoping to see the stiffening of that aim begin in the West Indies across a three-Test series starting next month.
The pressure is being piled on the likes of Chris Woakes and Mark Wood to take up the new ball and deliver for Root in a region where England have won just once in 54 years.
