DEREK PRINGLE

Looking cool: But all Joe Root’s pre-planning and unorthodox field placings, inset, didn’t really bear fruit for England

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Everyone loves a plan. But did Joe Root get carried away with them at the Gabba? Michael Vaughan didn’t seem to think so.
England’s former captain spent much of his commentary stints on BT Sport purring away at Root’s pro-action as if Einstein had suddenly been parachuted into some freckly, Yorkshire kid whose voice had not long broken.
Plans in cricket, like the technology that formulates them, have ...