{"id":437917,"date":"2026-01-26T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437917\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:07:07","slug":"hes-taken-his-punishment-root-lauds-brook-after-englands-win-in-sri-lanka-england-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437917\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s taken his punishment\u2019: Root lauds Brook after England\u2019s win in Sri Lanka | England cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Root has lavished praise on Harry Brook and Brendon McCullum<\/a> after the pair celebrated their first one\u2011day international victory abroad while in charge of England\u2019s white-ball teams.<\/p>\n

Root\u2019s 75 was the guiding hand in England\u2019s five-wicket win against Sri Lanka<\/a> on Saturday, ending a losing sequence away from home that began in November 2024. McCullum began his reign as all-format head coach two months later in India before Brook ascended to the limited\u2011overs captaincy in April. Both have been scrutinised in recent weeks: McCullum\u2019s future has been questioned<\/a> after England\u2019s defeat in the Ashes, while Brook has apologised<\/a> for clashing with a nightclub bouncer on the eve of the third ODI against New Zealand at the start of the winter.<\/p>\n

Regarding the Brook incident, Root said: \u201cHe\u2019s apologised, he\u2019s taken his punishment and he\u2019s desperate to take this team forward. I think he\u2019s going to be a brilliant England captain and he\u2019s going to do wonderful things in an England shirt, both as a player and as a leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m fully behind him and want to see him, I suppose, move past it and learn from it and grow as a person and as a captain off the back of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Baz [McCullum] is one of the best coaches I\u2019ve ever worked with. If you look at my own personal game, the time that he\u2019s been coach, it\u2019s improved tenfold. I think most of the players, if you look individually, all of their games have improved under his tenure as coach. Same with [Jeetan Patel] and [Marcus Trescothick] as batting coach and assistant coach. They\u2019ve done a lot of really good things for English cricket and will do in the future as well. Obviously, we\u2019re disappointed with the way things went out in Australia, but I still think that there\u2019s a lot of more really exciting things to come from this group.\u201d<\/p>\n

While claiming he is \u201cstill having the best time\u201d in this England setup, Root said he has not properly reflected on the Ashes yet. \u201cAfter this tour I\u2019m going to get a couple of months to sit back and look at it properly and probably emotionlessly. I think that\u2019s probably the most sensible way to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could sit here and get wound up and angry about it and probably say something that I don\u2019t necessarily mean or I could give myself some time to properly reflect on it and then have a proper, honest conversation with a bit more reason and sense behind it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series concludes on Tuesday, while the first T20 match is on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Root has lavished praise on Harry Brook and Brendon McCullum after the pair celebrated their first one\u2011day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-437917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437917","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=437917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}