England captain Joe Root says he does not want to “completely rip everything up” from the Bazball era after becoming Test captain for the second time in his career.
The 35-year-old took the role on again earlier this week replacing Ben Stokes, who stepped down in June as England slid to a series defeat against New Zealand.
Root, who steps in to a familiar role and has a wealth of experience after captaining England for 65 Tests between 2017 and 2022, is planning to tweak the approach of Stokes and Brendon McCullum rather than start from scratch.
In an interview with ECB, he said: “It’ll be trying to continue some of the good things we have done over that period (since 2022) and not finding ourselves back to where we were before Baz and Ben took over.
“Evolving and tweaking things to get us to where we want to be and really competing against the top nations consistently over a long period of time.
“The wrong thing to do would be to completely rip everything up that we’ve done over the last four years.
“There’s so much good stuff that Ben and Brendon did and changed the way we look at the game and see the game.
“I’ve benefitted hugely from that as a player so to think we have to start all over again would be wrong. But there are areas we want to sharpen up a little bit and become a little bit sterner with.
“The last four years is the most fun I’ve had in cricket and most of that is down to the way they got me to see the game.
“Clearly the last little while is fresh in everyone’s minds but you’re looking at a four-year period where we did a lot of good things.”