South Africa: Cricket - Joe Root, England Selection Carousel's Cruel Casualty

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As the English Ashes debacle wore on and the disaster continued to unravel, Joe Root became a casualty in the desperate selection merry-go-round. England's continued mistreatment of one of their young stars has been one the cruellest symptoms of their continued plummet to new depths.

Over the course of the next few days and perhaps weeks, the England think-tank will sit down and try to decipher where it all went so horribly wrong that they were hammered 5-0 by Australia in the Ashes. There will be many answers, but England will do well to keep in mind how their mistreatment of young players has been a blight on creating harmony in the squad. One player who has been particularly mistreated is Joe Root.

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