{"id":412032,"date":"2024-07-13T23:33:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T23:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=412032"},"modified":"2024-07-14T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T00:05:16","slug":"salty-roots-bizarre-claim-over-aussie-ashes-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=412032","title":{"rendered":"Salty Root's bizarre claim over Aussie Ashes win"},"content":{"rendered":"

F\ufefformer England<\/a> captain Joe Root<\/a> has bizarrely suggested England<\/a> should not have gone on their 2021-2022 Ashes<\/a> Tour to Australia, and did so just to "keep the lights on".<\/p>\n

Much of the build up to the series, in which Root's England team were rolled 4-0, was dominated by the COVID-19 restrictions \ufeffput in place on the tourists.<\/p>\n

England had to carry our 14 days in quarantine after arriving in Australia, and were from then on required to remain in a bubble.<\/p>\n

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Skipper Pat Cummins<\/a> and then-England coach Chris Silverwood were both forced to miss matches \ufeffwhile isolating, while the fifth Test was moved from Perth to Hobart due to the WA Government's strict border restrictions.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/p>\n

Speaking to media on Sunday morning (AEST), Root suggested he regretted that England even \ufeffwent on the last Ashes Tour.<\/p>\n

"Thinking of COVID, it was about keeping the lights on last time we went," Root said.<\/p>\n

"Arguably we shouldn't have gone last time, should we in retrospect?<\/p>\n

"We did what we thought was the right thing at the time.<\/p>\n

"We'll be in a completely different place going into next time."<\/p>\n

Root has never won a Test match in Australia, nor has he scored a \ufeffscored a Test hundred.<\/p>\n

\"Ashes<\/p>\n

He's not the first England player who was on that tour to pour water on that series. Last April Stuart Broad said the COVID restrictions lead to "a void series".<\/a><\/p>\n

\ufeff"Nothing was harsher than the last Ashes series," Broad told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

"But in my mind I don't class that as a real Ashes. The definition of Ashes cricket is elite sport with lots of passion and players at the top of their game.<\/p>\n

"Nothing about that series was high level performance because of the COVID restrictions. The training facilities, the travel, not being able to socialise.<\/p>\n

"I've written it off as a void series."<\/p>\n

Australia still hold the Ashes after the 2023 series in England was drawn 2-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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