Joe Root acknowledges mistake in saying Moeen Ali 'chose' to go home
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theguardian.comPosted Feb 16, 2021, 7:23 PM UTC
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theguardian.comPretty abhorrent that they threw Joe, who really has nothing to do with this, under the bus
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It was joe who made the statement. He could have just said he is going back as per the original plan. He chose to use the words has chosen to go home.
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I believe the management asked Moeen to stay on for the remaining tests. Moeen wanted to stick with the original plan, so it was fair of Joe to use these words, it was the media who decided to jump on it and twist them into something malicious. Root apologised as it was an antidote to the media spin.
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So a guy who has been captain of the team for a while now and has played 100 tests doesn't understand how saying someone chose to go home instead of he is going home would make things difficult for that someone? Was root born yesterday?
No one twisted anything, this is what he said "Moeen's chosen to go home", the management should not have asked and even if they did, root should have had the common sense to not use the words he used. Root apologised as while ali was getting pilloried on social media for "chosing to leave", there were also people calling root and management on their bs, likes of nasser hussain, goerge dobell, all started pointing out the hypocrisy of root and the english management, this was as much self preservation as it was defending ali.
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"Moeen has chosen to go home" (after being asked to stay on). Poor media awareness and choice of words from Root? Absolutely. If you think Roots intention was to throw Ali to the Twitter dogs and journo's then you are one confused pup. What has 100 tests got to do with any of it?
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Joe Root seems like the nicest guy in cricket.
I hate that he got so much hate from 2018-2020 through a supposedly lean patch in form.
His innocent light hearted banter when wasting a review was funny asf.
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Root Vs Williamson in a brutal UFC fight for the nicest guy title.
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Gonna go to tiebreak..
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Because neither of them even try to throw a punch/kick or anything.
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Boundary count?
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More like Step count
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I absolutely loved it when one of the spinners' ball bounced a little too high and Root asked the umpire if it was one for the over lol.
Dude enjoys the game and it shows
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His shit eating grin after getting out yesterday was hilarious, classic rooty
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Root seems such a good bloke.
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But you seriously can’t like him as a ...wait
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I know you like him as a bloke, but is he your captain?
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Joe Root makes it really difficult to hate an English captain. Just seems like a really decent bloke.
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Agreed. I'm pre-disposed to enjoying the suffering of the English Cricket team, but I can't help but like Root.
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This is really good going from Joe - a lot of people wouldn’t do this, at least not so soon after
If you’re out of the loop, here’s George Dobell summing up the mistake pretty well
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Good on Root. Hope someone in management has apologised to him for putting him in a position to answer these questions straight after a heavy Test defeat based on conversations he wasn't even part of.
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Root is my favourite human of the fab 4 alongside Williamson.
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Neither are in the fab 4 though
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Ah Yes, the Fab 4 of Rinku Singh, Clive Rose, Virat Kohli and Steve Smith.
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Kohli and Smith? Smh, filthy casuals.
It's obviously Joe Denly and Robin Uthappa.
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The Fab Four is in fact David Boon.
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How dare you forget Kedar "i'm going to count all these fielders one by one" Jadhav.
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You still got two wrong
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He's got you there u/Good-Mulberry-3505
It's Rinku, Clive, Umar Akmal, and James "Burnley Lara" Anderson
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My personal fab 4 is Rahul Tewatia 4 times
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The fab four last I checked is just Rahkeem Cornwall
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That’s the flab four
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I'm curious who you think is, I'm guessing Kohli, Smith, Labuschagne, Babar Azam?
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Dude it was supposed to be a joke. Look at the comments everyone had fun with the entire thing yet I got downvoted to hell.
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You didn't tell a joke; you told, at best, half a joke. Without the other half it just looks like you're either an idiot or an asshole. And complaining about downvotes afterwards does nothing to dispel that appearance.
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Good on Joe. The man has no ego. I wish more sports starts were a bit more humble and likeable as he is.
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I knew it was a silly mistake.
He has clarified it, we should move on.
Also don't see the point of being angry at cute people, it's like getting angry on your cat.
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Man why is this guy so nice? I couldn't even cheer when he got out to that snorter from Axar yesterday, he just looked so done. I miss the days when we had villains like Paine/Smith to dunk on...wait was that last month?
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You call a bloke a dickhead and you're a villian now? Fuck I must be some kind of supervillian by this point then.
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uh, I was being facetious, didn't think that needed pointing out but okay. Obviously Paine is nowhere close to Ponting as far as villainy is concerned.
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Ootl, what happened?
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Literally nothing. Moeen is leaving the tour now, as was previously agreed when the schedules were drawn up. Joe Root misspoke in an interview which made it sound as though Moeen had suddenly chosen to leave. Root has since clarified the situation. In a pre internet age nothing would have been said and no one would've cared. As it is, ignorant/misinformed people with axes to grind started questioning Moeen's commitment and then the white knights charged over the horizon pontificating about how dreadful it is that an England captain could ever accidentally phrase something incorrectly.
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Moen ali went home because he wanted to get out of the bubble.
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It was more that he was never planning to stay in the bubble. The mistake was that Joe implied that Moeen chose to leave instead of stay at play the tests, when he was actually supposed to leave after the second test anyway. Basically Joe accidently put Moeen in a position where he could be percieved as not being dedicated enough to English cricket (when in reality he's coming back for the white ball games which would mean months away from his family)
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I must admit that I was carrying a poor impression of Root( great batsman but poor sportsman). Primarily because of one incident where he hurled the ball at KL Rahul's head while bowling to Rahul during the test series in 2016 in India. I must say this tour and incidents like this one has made me rethink my opinion. He seems like a good sportsman and a nice guy as well.
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I literally posted the same thing last night, just that my post had the headline as the picture while the link to the news article was in the comments.
And guess what, some mod got it removed with Rule No. 7 (Low effort/Meme).
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Say what you want about Root's tactical captaincy but I've never seen a captain more invested in the emotional well-being of his players. Not to mention he's a fantastic ambassador outside of the sport as well, representing LGBT charities and speaking up when faced with bigotry in the West Indies which he could've just as easily ignored. The team clearly all love him and are proud to follow him- and it's clear why.
I'll say what I want about his tactical captaincy. It's been really good lately. Top lad however you choose to see him.
Steve Smith.
“tReN SmOrTeR”
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