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Joe Root

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Joe Root is an English cricketer who plays for England in Tests and ODIs, captained the Test team from 2017 to 2022, and plays domestically for Yorkshire. He is the leading active run‑scorer and the second‑highest run‑scorer of all time among active batsmen.

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I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway…

Book

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When you go to Australia you are always asked whether you can perform in hostile environments against high pace and every Australian…

Australia

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The great thing about T20 is that it only takes one performance. One piece of individual brilliance can win a game and…

Change

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I don't get too fussy about food around games. It is more just a case of making sure I get some fuel…

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It is motivating seeing how powerful it is when people come together and show support for a fantastic organisation like the NHS.…

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I want England to do well. I want us to go to World Cups and win. If I'm not in the best…

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I do a lot of free weights in the gym, with lots of squats, lunges and push-pull exercises to help develop strength…

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I still like to think I have a pretty good laugh with the other guys in the dressing room and still enjoy…

Beer

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Teams quickly find trends in ways you get out. If you get out in similar fashion on three or four occasions, teams…

Fashion

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In white-ball cricket the conditions do vary, but throughout Tests it varies a lot more in a five-day game, and home advantage…

Cricket

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Every time you're involved in an Ashes series, as soon as it finishes at the back of your mind you start thinking…

Ashes

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I can remember that 2005 Ashes as a kid and being really absorbed in that whole series at 14 years old. It was magical.

Ashes

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Make sure you look after people around you and it holds you in good stead going forward in terms of leadership. Look…

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Coming out of the Ashes in 2013-14 and the World Cup in 2015 I realised how much I wanted to be a…

Ashes

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If you're playing against someone, you always want them playing flat out and at their best - so when you are successful…

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There's always things you want to get better at and learn from but that's something that's quite hard to instil in players.

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You learn from the bad games and the bad tours. And, when things are going well, you think about that and you…

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I just need to find the best version of myself. Find improvements to what I've already got, rather than trying to remodel…

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You want to be busy and try and get the scoreboard moving, and showing that intent when you go out there is…

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