Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- Skipper Ben Stokes hailed Joe Root as England's greatest batsman on Wednesday and backed him to fire in the Ashes against Australia, while hyping up his team's vaunted pace attack.England's record run-scorer is yet to win a Test in Australia in 14 attempts and is still searching for his first ton, despite boasting 39 hundreds in his career.Root, 34, arrived in Perth this week to newspaper headlines calling him "Average Joe" as pundits highlighted his supposed shortcomings.But Stokes said he had no concerns about Root's failure to make three figures in Australia in the past."He's the greatest English batter that the nation has seen," Stokes said in Perth ahead of England's only red-ball warm-up game starting on Thursday b...