Joe Root won the last of his 32 T20 caps for England in 2019. In many ways, he is yesterday’s news in a world game that has grown a pair of biceps and values brawn over brain.

It was, arguably, the trickiest bit of Joe Root's Monday in Sydney. He went through his usual routines, cameras fixed on his every tick. Cheeks ruddy, he puffed them out once more, took a deep breath, ...

Root made his ODI debut almost 13 years ago and, next to his greatness in the Test arena, his ODI freakishness is often overshadowed. A genuine great of the format and undoubtedly England’s greatest ...