By Bradley West

Dream debut: Surrey team-mate Dan Moriarty

THEY say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but try telling that to Surrey veteran Rikki Clarke.
The 38-year-old all-rounder started his third decade as a professional cricketer in 2020 but, if his returns since re-joining Surrey are anything to go by, Clarke is ageing like a fine wine. After swapping Birmingham for south London in 2017, Clarke has been a man reborn, topping Surrey’s first-class bowling averages that year before taking 47 wickets at an average of 21.53 in the county’s victorious 2018 campaig...