Phil Walker heads up to Sheffield for an audience with Joe Root, who is playing for Yorkshire against Sussex in the current round of fixtures
It’s night-time in the big city. The turf is dewy, the bleachers packed and sloshed. The English contingent have been duped again, forget it, knew it after two days, but still they’re hanging in there, electrified by the feeling that this colossal consolation prize may yet be theirs.
Australia recall their most reliable metronome. Keeper up, the squeeze is on. Boland’s first three are dots, one of them a wide on height. Th...
