Blade runner: New England captain Joe Root at Headingley
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Peter Hayter
Peter Hayter is encouraged by the thoughts of the new England skipper as he prepares to step up
Until the moment Joe Root actually takes the field at Lord’s on Thursday, July 6 to begin his reign as England captain in the first Test against South Africa, none of us will know for certain whether the phantom sock-snipper has been shown the dressing room door for good.
But this week at Headingley, where all we had to go on were his words, and, just as interestingly, the way he said them, th...