‘His job is to give his opinion and talk on the radio’: Joe Root on Darren Lehmann’s comments on ENG batter not being ‘one of the all time greats’

Reacting to that, Joe Root said to BBC, “My occupation is to people runs, right? To crook up each crippled and effort to bash each I tin retired successful the middle. His occupation is to springiness his sentiment and speech connected the radio.”

“I’ll bash my occupation and helium tin bash his job. He’s wholly entitled to accidental what helium wants. That’s his right,” the England batter added.

Just to beryllium wide arsenic determination are a batch of radical who deliberation , that I deliberation Joe basal is not a large . He is going to beryllium a great, I cognize that and a fantastic ambassador for our crippled but needs and helium volition astir apt bash this adjacent ashes . Get a 100 successful Aus and past nary quality .Cheers 👍

— Darren Lehmann (@darren_lehmann) November 25, 2024

Lehmann would aboriginal clarify his comments connected X, saying, “Just to beryllium wide arsenic determination are a batch of radical who deliberation , that I deliberation Joe basal is not a large . He is going to beryllium a great, I cognize that and a fantastic ambassador for our crippled but needs and helium volition astir apt bash this adjacent ashes . Get a 100 successful Aus and past nary dispute.”

In the archetypal Test successful Pakistan played successful October, Root became England’s all-time starring scorer, leapfrogging Alastair Cook. He has a full of 12,754 runs successful his kitty and is present conscionable beneath Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid successful the all-time list.