STAR PUPIL JOE ALWAYS HAD A DRIVE TO SUCCEED

Richard Edwards talks to Kevin Sharp, the man who helped take Joe Root to the very top

I THOUGHT what’s going on here?” laughs Kevin Sharp, when recalling his first meeting with a 12-year-old Joe Root. “I had asked Joe what he wanted from the session and he said he wanted to me to challenge him, he said he wanted the same session that Anthony Magrath had just had.”
Unbeknown to Sharp – then Yorkshire’s batting coach – Root and his father, Matt, had watched the session before from the balcony. The only problem for Sharp was that he had sp...

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