The Guardian - 01.08.2019

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• The Guardian
  Thursday 1 August 2019

England turn

up Ashes heat

Root riled

by Australia’s

handshake plan

Joe Root has been left frustrated at

discovering pre-match player hand-

shakes are listed among the events

before the Ashes opener today despite

not being consulted.

Tim Paine, the Australia captain, has

looked to bring in the football-inspired

goodwill ritual at the start of every

Test series his side play as a way

of rebuilding their image after the

ball-tampering scandal in South Africa

last year. But Root and Trevor Bayliss,

the England captain and head coach

Vic Marks ‘England’s batting

lineup is no longer a puzzle but

it is a curious thing’ Page 42

Barney Ronay ‘This could

be a defi ning series for

England’s captain’ Page 40

Adam Collins Reign of Paine

delivers dose of pragmatism

to the Baggy Greens Page 41

Exclusive

Ali Martin

respectively, are understood to have

been surprised during a meeting yes-

terday with Ranjan Madugalle, the

International Cricket Council match

referee, when they saw it on the run-

ning order agreed by the two countries

without being asked formally.

Eoin Morgan, England’s one-day

captain, agreed to the same request

from Paine before the one-day inter-

national series last summer and there

was perhaps an assumption, either by

Cricket Australia or by the ICC, that the

same would apply once more. Root,

while not looking to stoke up ill feeling

between the teams, is said to

be less than convinced of the

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▲ The captains, Joe Root

and Tim Paine, have their

eyes on the urn

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