Star England batsman Joe Root on Thursday said that he wants to see England captain Alastair Cook lead the team for ‘years to come’ and that he is happy in his capacity as the vice-captain of the team.
England are on course to equal their largest number of losses in a calendar year and Cook looked absolutely exhausted after Tuesday’s eight-wicket defeat against India in Mohali. The 31-year-old has said that he will review his position at the end of the tour, as he does after every trip.
But his deputy Root said it would be wrong to blame Cook for England’s batting failures in the third Test, when they made 283 and 236 on a decent pitch – insisting he would be in the job ‘for a few years to come’.
“I think he is coping all right,” Root said of Cook. “He’s very professional and you don’t really get much from him in that respect. I imagine it must be quite tough being away from a new child and family and everything.
