Mr Miyagi
Banned
And Kane bats 3. Like an Ian Chappell boss. None of this namby-pamby 4 or 5 stuff :PRoot has only scored 3 test centuries away from in England and Wales in 32 tests and has the easier option of longer series with more time to look at bowlers who get tired/injured.
Williamson has scored 10 test centuries away from NZ in 35 tests despite many of those being in two match series.
Overall for the last 5 years
Root 62 tests - average of 53
Williamson 40 tests - average of 63
But seriously, why is Kane even being brought into a Joe Root discussion?
England ought to stop comparing and replicating the things NZ do, and start doing their own thing. Mark Wood going to bowl like Wagner, well he doesn't. Root to bat 3 like KW, well its not working out for him.
NZ has different available talent to England in tests, it is one thing for them to take our ODI script and shoot the lights out with it, but its another thing to take our test script too. Which if they are going to pinch, involves picking a middle order spud batsman, and selecting him so long that eventually he looks half decent. And at some point, if you have no second openers, you start fabricating them from the middle order, that is the NZ way.
But with Foakes and Buttler around, Bairstow hanging onto the gloves seems a little odd to me when he is an excellent candidate to move higher up the order. In NZ, BMac couldn't drop the gloves quick enough. And most batsman only pick them back up when they're short of runs, see Latham and Watling.
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