Root powerless to stop runs – gets spinner (7)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

for the surface, Joe Root [wiki] plays cricket and has captained England – the surface suggests a situation where the opposing team is scoring runs and the captain chooses a spinner to bowl the next over [P]- OTATO ="Root", without P for 'power' i.e. "powerless", and inside (to stop) R and R (abbreviation for 'run' in cricket)