Root and Warner will meet in The Hundred at Lord’s on Thursday when the Englishman’s Trent Rockets travel to play London Spirit.<\/p>\n
Asked if he will respond to Warner’s jibes on the field, Root said: “I don’t think so. <\/p>\n
“I guess it is all part of the fun, right? We will see what happens but it is not really in my nature to get too verbal.”<\/p>\n
While Root has never scored a century or won a Test in Australia, he has scored nine fifties and averages 35.68 – a respectable record although well below his career average of 51.29.<\/p>\n
This summer he scored 537 runs in five Tests against India and moved up to second in the all-time Test run-scorers list behind only India legend Sachin Tendulkar.<\/p>\n
“Having played in Australia a couple of times before, now going with 150-odd Test caps under my belt, I feel I couldn’t be more ready for it,” said Root.<\/p>\n
“The thing that stands out for me is I probably wanted it [a century] way too much the last couple of times. It took me away from what was important.”<\/p>\n
Root added that there were “loads of other things to contend with” on the past two Ashes tours in Australia in 2021-22 and 2017-18, both of which the hosts won 4-0.<\/p>\n
“There were a lot of distractions,” said Root.<\/p>\n
“I was captain, Covid [during the 2021-22 defeat], there was the Stokes incident<\/a> the time before that, the Jonny [Bairstow] headbutt incident<\/a> as well. <\/p>\n “This time I want to just go and enjoy the tour for what it is. It is a beautiful country it is a great place to go and play cricket. <\/p>\n “I know if I put my best performances in then everything else will look after itself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Root and Warner will meet in The Hundred at Lord’s on Thursday when the Englishman’s Trent Rockets travel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-65262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}