The Ashes: England captain Joe Root returns after missing start of day four due to injury
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Joe Root is England's second highest run-scorer so far in the Ashes series
England captain Joe Root returned to the field after missing the start of day four of the second Ashes Test in Adelaide because of injury.
Root, 30, was hit with a ball, while not wearing a protective box, as he practised batting during the warm-up before play started.
He left the Adelaide Oval for a scan but was cleared to play and returned 18 overs into the day.
Root was still in some discomfort but was able to bowl his off-spin.
Australia resumed day four on 45-1 before declaring on 230-9, setting England a highly improbable 468 to win.
Root followed his 89 in the first Test with 62 on day three in Adelaide. Root and Dawid Malan are the only England batters to score more than 40 in an innings on tour.
Root has scored 1,606 runs in 2021 - a record for an England batter in a calendar year - with the next highest scorer for England in that period opener Rory Burns with 496.
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