MARTIN JOHNSON
There’s still time for Joe Root to change his mind. As indeed he still might if he’s been tuning in to the India v Australia series, where the team captains have been obliged to walk onto a stage at the end of each match and answer questions that would make your brain throb if you were a pond skater. Or a dung beetle.
Steve Smith’s increasingly glazed eyed expression comes not so much from the relentless strain of trying to orchestrate a series victory in as tough an environment as India as the post match ordeal by microphone.
Ergo, after a gritty escape wit...