I've heard Root and Foakes have been planning this for months for the next time they got to bat together. It's a full scale insurrection. They are pushing on to Stalingrad where Stokes and McCullum will make their final stand.
India will get loads of stick, some of it deserved, but these players have been flogged by endless playing/travel. At some stage that has to have an impact...
Gather round kids, and let me tell you about the long-ago days when the big problem in English batting was that Ian Bell ony got a hundred when someone else did, too.
Poor of Root to publicly criticise the pitch. Groundsman in his first year, just had to prepare a WC final wicket (which produced one of the best ever ODIs) and an Ashes Test in two weeks. Keep it for your report. Needless pressure on someone new to the job. Rant over...