Joe Root joins England squad

“Joe Root has arrived. He is at the ground (Brabourne Stadium),” the team’s media manager said. Root, who had stayed back for a few days for the birth of his first child, did not play the second warm-up game against an India A. England fielded 12 men, with eleven to bat, while the home side added two players to the list of 12 picked by the national selectors here on January 6. The two players who have been added to make it a 14-member squad are Sidharth Kaul, who was part of the India A team led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the first warm-up game here two days ago but did not make the eleven, and Sujit Nayak. The Cricket Board has not announced who had added these two names to the squad after it had been chosen earlier.