nightBatting hero: Michael Vaughan

Peter Hayter highlights the importance of having an in-form and confident Joe Root leading out England if they are to re-claim the Ashes this summer

Joe Root has never made any secret of the fact that, on occasion, his admiration for his fellow ‘Yorkie’ Michael Vaughan has crossed the line into the realms of anorakery.
Root freely admits to growing up copying the batting style of the former England captain, though, when discussing this, he does contend somewhat impertinently that “towards the end of his career his technique was slig...