Joe Root has insisted he would not change anything about England’s high-risk approach to the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston despite the bitter taste of defeat – but said he would love to return to his own appointment as captain in 2017 and attack with the same mindset as his successor, Ben Stokes.
“If I could go back in time I’d go back and start my captaincy the way Ben has and try to get us to play in a similar manner to how he does it,” Root said. “It’s far more exciting, it’s far more interesting, and I think we’re getting far more out of our team and our individuals. We’re playing better cricket to watch, we’re producing better results overall. And if we are going to grow as a team we can’t just look at a game like that, with a couple of moments that went against us, and say: ‘We need to go about things differently.’
