Derek Pringle looks ahead to Joe Root’s debut as England captain and points to a number of areas for the Yorkshireman to focus on

Let us hope he is not a ruminator, for the last time Joe Root, England’s latest Test captain, led a side at Lord’s they lost in humiliating circumstances unlikely to be replicated for another 50 years.
It was 2014 and Root was captain of Yorkshire when Middlesex chased an almost-fictitious 472 for victory in the fourth innings of a County Championship match. To make matters worse, Yorkshire’s usual captain, Andrew Gale, had droppe...