And plenty of time left to get to the top of the international rankings. A quietly successful player and lover of the game and a great role model for young players. Well done Joe!
Disappointed. I thought this was a new foolproof Yorkshire a pudding receipe.
It’s all about hard work
as someone who pays absolutely zero attention to cricket, I thought this was a culinary post and was trying to work out if Root was a chef, a cooking organisation, or if we are making batter out of root veg now.
This might as well be another language
How much does Joe Root actually break into the national consciousness? Between Root and Jimmy Anderson we’ve probably had a decade of witnessing the greatest cricketers England has ever produced, in Jimmys case one of the greatest sportsmen and does the average member of the public even know who they are?
There was me wondering whether this was some kind of root beer batter.
I’m so pleased for him. Now he’s not weighed down by captaincy and the expectation to run a the pace of Brook/Duckett/Crawley et al, he seems to be in such a great place. Apparently he spent all of lockdown reviewing every time he got out, trying to figure out his weaknesses, and his post-covid average is way higher. The guy just puts in the work.
I remember when he was interviewed after scoring a game-winning hundred in his first Test under Stokes’s captaincy he said “Well, Stokesey got me out of so many holes when I was captain, it was nice to be able to return the favour.” I had a small tear in my eye, I must admit.
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Greatest? Most prolific, certainly…
And plenty of time left to get to the top of the international rankings. A quietly successful player and lover of the game and a great role model for young players. Well done Joe!
Disappointed. I thought this was a new foolproof Yorkshire a pudding receipe.
It’s all about hard work
as someone who pays absolutely zero attention to cricket, I thought this was a culinary post and was trying to work out if Root was a chef, a cooking organisation, or if we are making batter out of root veg now.
This might as well be another language
How much does Joe Root actually break into the national consciousness? Between Root and Jimmy Anderson we’ve probably had a decade of witnessing the greatest cricketers England has ever produced, in Jimmys case one of the greatest sportsmen and does the average member of the public even know who they are?
[Obligatory link](https://youtu.be/4fYPzLI2JeM?si=ki7GLUiZwXvlrnST) to a woman failing to sit in a chair where Joe Root chuckles on.
There was me wondering whether this was some kind of root beer batter.
I’m so pleased for him. Now he’s not weighed down by captaincy and the expectation to run a the pace of Brook/Duckett/Crawley et al, he seems to be in such a great place. Apparently he spent all of lockdown reviewing every time he got out, trying to figure out his weaknesses, and his post-covid average is way higher. The guy just puts in the work.
I remember when he was interviewed after scoring a game-winning hundred in his first Test under Stokes’s captaincy he said “Well, Stokesey got me out of so many holes when I was captain, it was nice to be able to return the favour.” I had a small tear in my eye, I must admit.
I much prefer beer batter myself
Watch out Sachin, Root is coming for you!
Watch out Sachin, Root is coming for you!