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Joe Root was praised by the bowling coach, Jon Lewis, after the England captain’s day was bookended by blows to his groin. On a painful day in Adelaide for the touring side Root was struck before play by a throw-down from the spin coach, Jeetan Patel, while warming up and was not wearing a box, forcing him to visit hospital for scans.
Although he eventually took the field, further agony followed when the fast bowler Mitchell Starc hit the same part of his body with a ball that jagged off the pitch, forcing a five-minute delay during which the England physio shooed away the Spidercam TV camera and inspected the injury under a towel.
