With Jofra Archer eyeing up his England hopes, Derek Pringle recalls the plight of Graeme Hick after his seven-year qualification process through the 1980s

Waiting game: The talented Jofra Archer

Economic migrants, godsends, opportunists, diamonds, leeches – these are the various descriptions that have been levelled at foreign-born players who have qualified to play cricket for England over the years.
From Graeme Hick to Jofra Archer, the latest traveller on that potentially rocky road, the journey has been fraught with perils both real and imagined. It is rarely straightforward...