"He's still an idiot, that's not changed, Root said. But as much as he's an idiot, and I can say that because I've known him forever, he's very cricket intelligent. He might not always be the most intelligent away from cricket, but he understands the game exceptionally well and that's why he's so consistent as a batter, and I think that's what will make him a really good leader."
"England's last few World Cup campaigns, when they were led by a captain in Jos Buttler who has never been tarred by the word, have all been marked by outbreaks of rank idiocy: packing the team with seamers for a T20 semi-final on the most infamously turning pitch in the Caribbean and then not bowling one of the spinners you do have; winning the toss before an ODI being played on a boiling Mumbai day and choosing to make your own team suffer."
"This is not a great team, and it has not produced great performances, but neither has it been hobbled by obvious and avoidable errors. It is a humiliatingly low bar for an England side to have to clear, but it is progress."
Harry Brook has taken over as captain of England's white-ball teams, following a T20 World Cup semi-final run despite a personal scandal involving a drunken incident in Wellington. Joe Root, Brook's Yorkshire teammate, characterized him as cricket-intelligent despite occasional poor judgment off the field. While England remains an imperfect team without producing exceptional performances, it has notably avoided the tactical errors that undermined previous World Cup campaigns under Jos Buttler, such as poor spinner selection, unfavorable toss decisions, and DLS miscalculations. This represents meaningful progress, albeit from a low baseline. Teammates like Will Jacks have praised the positive environment Brook has created within the group.
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