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- Updated: May 16, 2016
Joe Root has credited “the pain of defeat” for spurring him on over recent months as he was named England’s player of the year in both Test and limited-overs cricket.
Root, whose awards were announced at the England team awards dinner in Leeds on Monday night, highlighted the World Cup debacle in New Zealand and Australia in early 2015 and England’s Ashes humbling in 2013-14 as the turning points of a career that has reached impressive heights over recent months. Root, who was also named as the fan’s choice player of the year in the men’s game, was rated the world’s No. 1 Test batsman for a while during the year and has been heralded by some as the finest player England have yet produced over the three international formats. He won the overall award in 2015.
But it was, Root said, the pain of failure that inspired him to improve his game. Dropped from the Test team at the end of an Ashes series that England lost 5-0, Root resolved to work harder than ever to succeed in international cricket. And, realising how far England had slipped behind the field after the early elimination from the World Cup, he resolved to push himself.
“Coming out of the Ashes in 2013-14 and the World Cup in 2015 I realised how much I wanted to be a force in international cricket,” Root said as he reflected on a year of progress both personally and for the England team. “I knew then how much work I was going to have to put in if that was going to be the case. And I have worked very hard.
“The World Cup was probably the lowest point. It was tough to take; an incredibly frustrating tour. The thing was, we had everything there: it was all starting to come together. But it was probably a year too soon.
“The pain of those defeats helped spur me on. You need that desire and that hunger. You learn from the mistakes you make. You learn from the bad games and the bad tours.
“And, when things are going well, you think about that and you make the most of it. You don’t get lazy; you don’t rest on your laurels. You make it count. This game can be brutal. As soon as you get comfortable, it bites you. You have to stay on it all the time.”
Root reached 50 13 times in 27 Test innings (three centuries and 10 half-centuries at an average of 54.83) in the last 12 months. He added …
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