Joe Root has called on supporters to scale back their barracking of Australia’s players when the Ashes action moves to his home ground of Headingley on Thursday, as the row over Jonny Bairstow’s dismissal at Lord’s continues to simmer. “You come to support your nation,” Root said. “It doesn’t need to go beyond that, it should never go beyond that.”
There will be a much-changed team to support, with Ollie Pope ruled out of the rest of the series after scans showed he had dislocated his right shoulder, and the tight turnaround after Lord’s is likely to lead to both sides rotating their seamers.
