LET BEN SKIPPER IN PEACE

ENGLAND have learned lessons from the last months of Root’s captaincy. There were times when he seemed to be doing everything and I think a lot of the off-field stuff will be taken away from Stokes. When I was England coach I saw my job primarily as clearing the decks for Michael Atherton and Alec Stewart. Their work is on the field — you have to make it as easy as possible for them to deliver.