Joe Root stands alone after old mate Ben Stokes runs out of road
•Root and Stokes have been friends since they were children – now England’s leading Test runscorer must go on even as Bazball comes to its endJoe Root and Ben Stokes are great mates; they’ve played wit...
•Root even confessed this week in a moving dressing room tribute that Stokes had taught him his first swearword.
•There’s something symbolic in that, it almost feels like Stokes has been doing the same to English cricket over the last four years.“It’s been a hell of a ride mate, I’ve loved every minute of playing...
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المصدر: The Guardian Sport | Source: The Guardian SportRoot and Stokes have been friends since they were children – now England’s leading Test runscorer must go on even as Bazball comes to its end
Joe Root and Ben Stokes are great mates; they’ve played with each other since they were children representing Yorkshire and Durham’s youth teams. Root even confessed this week in a moving dressing room tribute that Stokes had taught him his first swearword. There’s something symbolic in that, it almost feels like Stokes has been doing the same to English cricket over the last four years.
“It’s been a hell of a ride mate, I’ve loved every minute of playing alongside you,” Root goes on to say in the speech. “I’m so grateful I got to spend the journey with you.” Stokes is clearly choked up listening to his comrade pay tribute and also wonderfully uncomfortable in that particularly English way when someone is being earnest and speaking from the heart.
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