It will be a nerve-racking business for Ollie Pope to make his Test debut at Lord’s – just like I did against India in 1982

PRINGLE’S VIEWPOINT

Pride: Debutant Ollie Pope

Making a Test debut for England is always a mixture of pride and apprehension for the cricketer involved as they make the step-up they always dreamed about. But making it at Lord’s, the game’s grandest stage, and at the age of 20 as Ollie Pope is doing in the current Test against India, multiplies those emotions several times. For all his youth Pope is not callow.
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