Joe Root admitted that captaincy had become “a very unhealthy relationship” after his first match since passing that potentially toxic baton to Ben Stokes ended with him sealing England’s first Test win in 10 months and scoring both his first fourth-innings century and his 10,000th Test run.
Root gave up the captaincy in April after England followed a disastrous Ashes tour with a series defeat in the West Indies, having found the burdens of leadership increasingly overbearing.
