England set out to save coach’s job –despite doubt over Stokes

By Chris Stocks

Lightning strike: Liam Livingstone smashed Lancashire Lightning to a convincing victory over Leicestershire yesterday with 90 not out off just 56 balls
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ENGLAND captain Joe Root has backed underfire coach Trevor Bayliss to stay on in the job and urged his players to put in a match-winning performance for the Australian against Pakistan at Headingley.
Root was last night waiting on the results of a scan to see if Ben Stokes, England’s talismanic allrounder, would be fit fo...