- Captain wants to end Pakistan series with strong performance
- Jofra Archer may return to the side in place of Sam Curran
Joe Root has called on his England players to sign off from their “bizarre” summer of biosecure Test cricket by throwing everything at Pakistan and, more specifically, this means Jofra Archer letting the handbrake off to deliver some 90mph bursts.
England’s red-ball cricketers will have spent nine weeks locked in the bubble – bar a handful of days at home after the West Indies series – and Root admitted there are no guarantees when their next action will be or if crowds can return next summer.