By Richard Edwards

Injury hell: Reece Topley

WHEN The Cricket Paper catches up with Reece Topley he has just picked up a new car – but in a conversation punctuated by sighs of exasperation, he admits that he struggled to get out of second gear with Hampshire this season. Even before the crushing diagnosis of a second stress fracture in two years.
Topley has cut a frustrated figure on the south coast since his high-profile move from Essex in the winter of 2015. Back then, he hoped a move to a county in Division One would provide the perfect platform for him to build on a promising s...