Inside the mind of Joe Root
In an interview with The Telegraph, Joe Root talks about his dark days, the art of batting long, Yorkshire's batting tradition and more
ESPNcricinfo staff
29-Oct-2015
In an interview with Michael Vaughan in the Telegraph, Joe Root talks about his dark days during England's Australia sojourn, Yorkshire's batting tradition and what it means to be the No. 1 ranked batsman.
"It was my lowest moment in cricket and I remember I had more beers in that series than I scored runs. And I didn't have many beers either," he says.
"I was so angry and gutted because I had not scored runs, not because I thought I deserved to play. Then it hit me and I thought I might not get a chance to play for England again. I was a young lad. I had scored two hundreds and a couple of fifties. I had done all right but there are no guarantees you are going to come back. We'd had a terrible tour and I did not know if that would be it for me. I've never wanted to go home as much as I did at the end of that series. We only won one game and I didn't even play in that one. I remember getting my win bonus through at the end of the tour and it was about 10 quid for the whole trip because I was carrying the drinks for the game we won."