Ben Stokes has thrown his support behind Joe Root's England cricket captaincy, claiming that he has no aspirations to replace him in the top job

Root becomes the longest serving test captain in England's history when he leads the side out for the fourth Ashes test against Australia in Sydney.

But any sense of pride in that achievement will be tempered by the fact that, for the third time, he has led an unsuccessful Ashes campaign.

Stokes, who's led the test team once before, is distancing himself from any talk of succession planning, and says Root is a skipper you want to play for.

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