Joe Root said his England side must learn quickly from their series-levelling 340-run defeat by South Africa after a grim collapse on the fourth
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http://www.authenticducksstore.com/frederik-andersen-jersey_c-426.html for The Oval will be debated by Bayliss, Root and the selectors over the coming days. Toby Roland-Jones and Jake Ball will surely push for Mark Wood’s spot in the attack, while England were waiting to learn whether the No3 Gary Ballance has broken his left index finger after a lifter from Morné Morkel that left him heading for a scan after play. When it was put to Root that England were not learning from the mistakes of the past 18 months, he replied: “That might have happened previously but we are in a position now where we have to make sure we look forward and keep looking to get better. The ways we’ve gone about it previously haven’t worked, so we have to look for something different.” On the struggle to bat time Root said: “A lot of sides do in world cricket, with the amount of white-ball cricket we play and the crossover. But that’s part and parcel of Test cricket, we need to be better at that. There’s no shying away from it. We need to make sure we learn quickly so, if we are in a similar situation at The Oval, for example, we play it slightly smarter.” South Africa transformed by Du Plessis’s bold and hard-nosed captaincy Read more Root has certainly learned about the pressures that follow a defeat, with two prominent former England captains criticising his side’s approach. Nasser Hussain
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