Failure is simply no option for Root as desperate England look to stop the rot

By Chris Stocks

Home comforts: Joe Root will be looking to prove a point in front of his home crowd at Headingley
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PROBABLE TEAMS
ENGLAND: Cook, Jennings, Root, Malan, Bairstow, Buttler, Curran, Woakes, Bess, Broad, Anderson
PAKISTAN: Azar, Imam, Sohail, Shafiq, Salahuddin, Shadab, Faheem, Amir, Hassan, Abbas
THIS final Test against Pakistan represents a crossroads for the England team and, more specifically, Joe Root’s captaincy.
Make no mistake, this is a mustwin match for the hosts, who after a nightmare winter and implosion at Lord’s last week are lo...

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