Root will be tuning in to see if the continent’s top golfers can overcome home advantage in New York to claim a famous and unlikely win, before heading to Australia with exactly the same mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n
England’s last Ashes win in Australia came in 2010-11 and Europe’s most recent success in the United States followed at Medinah in 2012, shortly before Root won the first of his 158 Test caps.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both groups will need to conquer hostile home support to achieve their ambitions, but Root is relishing his part in the battle ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of cross-over, 100 per cent. I think it’s a great responsibility to be given and a great opportunity for us to rewrite history, like the golfers, and do something really special,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s similar in cricket. When you go to Australia for an Ashes series or when they come to England, you want that build-up, you want people to be interested and to drag people who wouldn’t normally be at a Test match to be glued to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“In the ground, on the TV or the radio, whatever it is, you want that enjoyment factor from sport. I think that makes it the spectacle it is.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think it’s a bad thing for Australia to be favourites in their own conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“That doesn’t mean I’m not confident, it doesn’t mean I don’t think we’ve got what it takes to win — because I definitely do.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m really excited to see us go out there and challenge them on all fronts. Hopefully we’re able to put them under pressure from ball one.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Root was unable to bring the Ashes home in two attempts as captain, in 2017-18 and 2021-22, but has fully embraced the role of senior pro under Ben Stokes and his experience remains central to England’s plans this winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s about understanding yourself and what I bring to the team to empower myself, how can I add to the players around me,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Root will be tuning in to see if the continent’s top golfers can overcome home advantage in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-168704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}