Adam Collins discovers that England’s ‘forgotten’ opener is ready to try a spot of queue jumping
Sam Robson wintered well. It would have been understandable had he not after the story of his 2016 boiled down to a prized opportunity left untaken.
In the opening stanza of that season, the Middlesex opener couldn’t have done much more to earn an England recall. His account opened with 231 at Lord’s against Warwickshire, then another ton came in defiance of a full-strength Notts attack, before falling for 99 in their Somerset home fixture. He was flying.
With Alex ...