00:00Joe Roots has helped lead England towards a more settled period after what he described as a summer of chaos.
00:12Returning to the Test captaincy following Ben Stokes' retirement, Roots oversaw a 3-0 series victory against Pakistan, giving England
00:22a strong finish to a turbulent period.
00:26The Yorkshireman has also had to balance leadership, responsibility and his own batting form.
00:33His performances this summer have been below his usual standards, but an unbeaten half-century in the third and final
00:42Test at Edgbaston helped England complete the clean sweep.
00:48His return to captaincy has provided some stability, with interim head coach Marcus Traskovic also helping as well.
00:57Here's what Joe Roots had to say after the third and final Test match.
01:04Just lastly, you mentioned the sort of chaos there and the stuff that has been floating around.
01:08Do you feel like you walk out of this series now with that put to bed? Do you feel like
01:14this is now a pretty steady ship?
01:16I think that when you try to build a culture, it doesn't happen overnight and it doesn't happen over the
01:21course of three or four weeks.
01:23And it's going to take a long time for us to keep working at that and living it day in,
01:28day out.
01:29So, you know, that's something that we'll continue to keep working at.
01:33But, you know, throughout the game this summer, we've got a good understanding of what that looks like.
01:40And we've made some really good strides in the right direction in that.
01:44So, you know, we just got to keep doing the right things.
01:48And if we can align that with playing well and winning series, then obviously everything's heading in the right direction.
01:57I mean, you saw chaos quite a few times.
02:00Obviously, we've been aware of quite a bit of that from outside the dressing room.
02:04But can you expand on that at all?
02:07How kind of unprecedented was it in the context of your long career?
02:11And how hard was it to provide for those to you?
02:15Well, it's been a very unusual summer, hasn't it?
02:17It's probably a better way of putting it.
02:19There's been a lot of different things happen.
02:25So our resignation mid-series have been a few off-field instances and we've got a new coach.
02:30Whether you call it chaos, whether you call it unusual, whether you call it unsettling, I think all are fair.
02:36But ultimately, the thing that I care about and that's most important is what happens from that.
02:42And I think the way that we've responded to that has been excellent.
02:47And the fact that there's no clarity in what is expected of the Greek moving forward is quite evident and
02:54we build on that now.
02:56What's up?
02:57So.
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