By Chris Stocks
UNLESS injury intervenes, not many people retire from professional sport at the age of 25. Zafar Ansari, though, was no ordinary athlete and so the Surrey all-rounder’s decision to walk away from cricket this week should not have come as a major surprise.
Ansari only made his Test debut for England against Bangladesh in Dhaka last November. He played two more Tests, against India in Rajkot and Visakhapatnam, and ended with a bowling average of 55 and batting average of 9.80.
Those figures were not an unfair reflection of Ansari’s performances even if he could hav...