Joe Root on Friday stepped down as England Men's Test skipper and this decision comes after the side lost the Test series against Australia and West Indies earlier this year. Root holds the record for winning most number of matches in the longest format as England captain (27) and he is ahead of Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss. As soon as Root's decision was made public by the England and Wales Cricket Board, Root was congratulated on a successful tenure as captain of the Three Lions. Former England captain Michael Vaughan also congratulated Root for giving it all as a captain with very little support for the red-ball side.
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Root on Friday announced his decision to step down as England's Test captain.
Joe Root has announced to step down from captaincy.© AFP
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Joe Root stepped down as England Test skipper on Friday.
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This year, England lost series against Australia and West Indies.
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In the Ashes, Australia defeated England 4-0.
Root was appointed as England's skipper in 2017 and he succeeded Sir Alastair Cook. Root had led England to few famous wins, including a 4-1 home series win over India in 2018 and a 3-1 triumph away to South Africa in 2020.
In 2018 he had become the first England men's captain to win a Test series in Sri Lanka since 2001, and then he repeated the feat with a 2-0 victory in Sri Lanka in 2021.
Root is already England's second highest Test run scorer of all time behind only Cook and scored 14 centuries as captain. His tally of 5,295 runs as skipper is the highest by any England captain and puts him 5th in the all-time list behind Graeme Smith, Alan Border, Ricky Ponting and Virat Kohli.
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