Joe Root his first golden duck in his ODI career. The 5th ODI was better for Root as he scored a quick 21 before being bowled and also took the wicket of George Bailey. England lost the series 2–1 and Root finished the series with 36 runs and 1 wicket. Root was selected for the 2013-14 Ashes series. He was selected at number 6 for the first Test as Michael Carberry was given the opening batsman role alongside Alastair Cook. Root only managed 2 runs from 7 balls in the first innings before being caught off a Mitchell Johnson delivery. In the
Root system arrangement of the tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb. The A root system (as well as the other rank-three root systems) may be modeled in the Zometool Construction set. In general, the A root lattice is the vertex arrangement of the "n"-dimensional simplectic honeycomb. Let "E" = R, and let Φ consist of all integer vectors in "E" of length 1 or . The total number of roots is 2"n". One choice of simple roots is: α = e – e, for 1 ≤ i ≤ n – 1 (the above choice of simple roots for A), and the shorter root α = e.