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How Joe Root discovered a future cricketer in 10-year-old Jacob Bethell in Barbados and lobbied Yorkshire to sign prodigy
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The Indian Express
After an ODI in Bridgetown, Barbados, Root stayed on for a brief holiday with his family.
Story continues below this adThe impression only deepened later at the Bethell family home.
But later, Root noticed the boy had disappeared.
He was, as Root later described, “an old soul.”The entire experience left a powerful mark on the England star.
His partner at the other end was none other than a grown-up Jacob Bethell.