Ashes

Breakthrough year has Blake setting sights on new goals

by
The Cricket Paper Team
18 August 2019

YOUNG GUN

BLAKE CULLEN Middlesex seamer

Having forced his way into both Middlesex’s Second XI and England U19s it’s already been a magnificent summer so far for 17-year-old seamer Blake Cullen.
The teenager has long been tipped for success with his county but this year’s Tri-Series has signalled a breakthrough at international U19 level under head coach Jon Lewis.
England were unable to make the final, finishing behind Bangladesh and eventual winners India, but Cullen is taking a lot from the experience having claimed six wickets in as many ODIs.
“It’s been ...