Signing: Cameron Bancroft

Marcus North, has enthusiastically backed the county’s decision to sign Cameron Bancroft and has compared the opener to Australia’s ‘Mr Cricket’, Michael Hussey.
Given the furore following the ‘Sandpapergate’ affair last March that comparison may startle some people but North has known Bancroft for over five years. His own final first-class game in Australia – the Sheffield Shield Final in 2014 – was Bancroft’s 11th at the end of his rookie season and North has no doubt the 26-year-old’s conduct at Newl...