Test captain says side will leave ‘rest and rotation’ behind themEngland can rise up ODI rankings with Oval win over Sri Lanka Joe Root has promised that
England will leave “rest and rotation” behind them and is aiming to take advantage of the development by pushing his way back into the Twenty20 squad after a two-year absence, just in time for this autumn’s World Cup.
Only two players from any nation scored more runs than Root at the last T20
World Cup, in 2016, but as the captain of England’s Test team and a mainstay of the one-day side, and with England attempting to protect their all-format players from burnout, he has not played a T20 international since May 2019.