England's captain Joe Root plays a shot from the bowling of West Indies' Shannon Gabriel during day four of the first cricket Test match Photo Credit: AP England's captain Joe Root plays a shot off the bowling of West Indies' Shannon Gabriel during day four of the first cricket Test match

England suffered a huge defeat against the Windies as they lost the first test match by 381 runs in Barbados. Despite suffering a humiliating defeat, Joe Root expressed confidence that his side can bounce back in the upcoming games and still make the most of the series. But this doesn't look so easy as England have many problems to deal with. England have often been criticised for their selection and Root admitted that they got the selection wrong for the 1st test match.

"This winter, we've gone to Sri Lanka and done things very differently to how we've done in the past, and we've seen it work," he said. "We've been bold, we've made some strong selections, and we've reaped the rewards for that over there. We've done similar here and it's not paid off," he added, pointing out at selection mistakes that cost the visitors.

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Root admitted that he should have opted for pacer Stuart Broad instead of two spinners. The pitch wasn't offering much for the spinners but the England team opted for playing both Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid. The pitch was tailor-made for fast bowlers and not playing veteran Broad cost England as the other bowlers had no answers to Jason Holder and Shane Dowrich's brilliance in the second innings of the test match. Holder went on to score a double ton (203) in the second innings. But England's worries are not restricted to selection as their batting performance has left everyone in disarray.

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Earlier during the test match, even former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar expressed his disappointment on Twitter when he came to know about Stuart Broad not being a part of the playing XI. Although he didn't criticise the team for playing two spinners but rather he was left wondering why Sam Curran is playing ahead of Stuart Broad? To Sam's rescue came Michael Vaughan saying that it was Curran to won England the series against India last year.

The second test match begins on 31st January and it will be played at Antigua, Root can only hope that his team would bounce back in the game and they would be in right frame of mind to register a win against the Windies to level the 3 match series.