Aug 2 (Reuters) – Joe Root said \u2060Stephen Fleming’s appointment as England’s test coach was a “big reason” he agreed \u2060to return as captain of the squad.<\/p>\n
Root replaced Ben Stokes after the \u200call-rounder retired following the home series against New Zealand. Fleming succeeds compatriot Brendon McCullum, whose four-year test tenure ended last month, though he remains England’s white-ball coach.<\/p>\n
“If I’m being brutally honest, it was a \u200bbig reason why I wanted to do it,” Root \u2060told the England and Wales \u2060Cricket Board.<\/p>\n
“I’m very excited by the way he sees the game, where he sees \u2060us \u200csit as a team, and the work that we have to do to get to where we want to get to. All of that got \u2060me very excited about taking this role on.”<\/p>\n
“He’s obviously got \u200ba wealth of experience \u200cand done some amazing things within the game as a player and \u2060as a coach, \u200band I’m very much looking forward to the next little while, and us trying to build something pretty special together.”<\/p>\n
Former New Zealand captain Fleming coachedChennai Super Kings for 17 years \u2060in the Indian Premier League before leaving last month.<\/p>\n
Root \u200bled England as their full-time test captain between 2017 and 2022 before he was replaced by Stokes.<\/p>\n
Stokes and McCullum championed a take-no-prisoners approach, which endeared them to the fans \u2060and Root hinted he and Fleming would like to retain that attacking mindset.<\/p>\n
“The last four years have been the most fun I’ve had in professional cricket…,” said the 35-year-old.<\/p>\n
“Clearly, the last little while is probably what’s fresh in everyone’s mind, but you’re \u200blooking at a four-year period where we did a \u2060lot of amazing things. <\/p>\n
“I’ve taken a lot from that, and I feel it will be \u200ba big part of how I want to \u200capproach things moving forward as a leader of \u200bthis team.”<\/p>\n
England host Pakistan for a three-test series beginning in Leeds on August 19.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; Editing by Kate Mayberry )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 2 (Reuters) – Joe Root said \u2060Stephen Fleming’s appointment as England’s test coach was a “big reason”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,6675,85],"class_list":["post-839381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-na","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839381","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=839381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}