IND vs ENG | Sweep shot 'lucrative' but will have to find different ways to score runs here: Joe Root
3 years, 11 months ago

IND vs ENG | Sweep shot 'lucrative' but will have to find different ways to score runs here: Joe Root

India TV News  

Sweep shot will stay an important weapon against India spinners but England skipper Joe Root has said he has not yet committed himself to use it in the four-Test series that begins Friday at the MA Chidamabaram Stadium. Root had scored a bulk of his runs in Sri Lanka with the sweep shot on his way to 426 runs in two Tests that helped England beat the hosts 2-0 in the Test series. I have to find different ways of scoring," said the England skipper. The 30-year-old said that because he couldn't muster up enough strength to hit the ball away from the square, he began relying on the sweep shot.

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India Today  

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India TV News  

His slight frame in the formative cricketing years forced Joe Root to hone his skills in playing the sweep shot against spinners, something that he might employ during the "mini-battle" with Ravichandran Ashwin in the four-Test series against India starting Friday. After former England skipper Graham Gooch, who was one of the finest exponents of sweep shot against Asian spinners, …

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