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HAMEED’S GOT A POINT TO PROVE

by
The Cricket Paper Team
16 May 2021

PRINGLE’S VIEWPOINT

THERE aren’t many who boast a Test batting average over ten runs better than their county equivalent, but Haseeb Hameed is one of them. How that came to pass is among the more cautionary tales of professional cricket and its pitfalls though one that may yet end happily following Hameed’s return to runs this season.
It is probably too soon for an England recall but he came to mind after Dominic Sibley, arguably the one Test opener sure of his place at present, broke a finger a few weeks ago. You see, as batsmen, Hameed and Sibley are cut from the s...

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