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Busy man: Joe Root would have been forced to miss the knockout stages of the IPL due to his England commitments
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Tim Wigmore looks into Steve Smith’s IPL inclusion over Joe Root despite having an inferior T20 record
This is a tale of two Test match captains in Twenty20 cricket. They both like to bat at four in Tests and three in T20, where they act as anchormen for the T20 age. Player A has played 39 T20Is, with an average of 39.10, and a strike rate of 128.76. Player B has played 30 T20Is, while recording signi...