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 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…
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