PETER HAYTER

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Fully-focused: Joe Root is moving up the order to three as England utilise their long batting line-up
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Most of the headlines regarding the first England squad picked by the new National Selector Ed Smith and his panel have focused on changes to the batting order at number five and seven, to be occupied in the opening Test against Pakistan at Lord’s by Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler.
But the move to number three by Joe Root is equally eye-catching, signalling, as it does, a major change of heart and mind by ...