Joe Root recalled the curious affair of his brush with David Warner in a Birmingham bar while wearing a fake beard to offer Jofra Archer encouragement that he can overcome the worst week of his career and hit back against West Indies. Now the England captain wants another special talent in Archer to forget his own Warner moment in the form of a 'suspension' for breaching bio-secure regulations that, as revealed in his Sportsmail column, clearly hit him far harder than first imagined. I had to go through the David Warner incident and Ben Stokes has been through a hell of a lot off the field. Australia's David Warner (right) admitted punching Root in a bar before the 2013 AshesThere is no question that the harshest comments - and the 'disgusting' abuse that Root talked of on Thursday - come from social media. But for England the priority is seeing a happy and firing Archer again.

Source: Daily Mail July 23, 2020 17:21 UTC