By Richard Edwards
BILLY Root has no regrets over his decision to draw stumps on his studies and focus solely on his cricket career.
The 24-year-old left-hander scored a blistering hundred for Nottinghamshire in a 10-run win against Warwickshire in the Royal London One Day Cup last week – an innings which suggests he could soon become an indispensable member of his county’s short format side.
All of which is a world away from the double life Root has been leading in recent years, combining his studies for a Sports Management degree at Leeds Beckett University with his longterm a...