At 5ft 6in Ben Duckett is in the small camp. But small batters have advantages even if looking up to everyone else on a cricket field isn’t one of them…
That was the quarter-finals week that was. It wasn’t quite a classic, with only one game threatening thriller status, but still the first round of T20 Blast knockouts have justified their status as hipster’s choice for the best entertainment that the English summer has to offer.
“It’s like watching Jacques Kallis play,” said a beaming Joe Root having had a front-row seat for the latest instalment of Gus Atkinson’s dreamy first summer as a Test cricketer.
There aren’t many bigger days in the county calendar than the T20 quarter-finals, which take place later this week. I say quarter-finals, but really it feels like a semi because the prize is Finals Day at Edgbaston, to my reckoning still the biggest day of the domestic summer.
A MAIDEN century in his third first-class innings from 19-year-old left-hander Freddie McCann helped take Nottinghamshire to 405 despite a career-best 7-129 from Will Jacks. Batting again, Surrey ended the third day 133 ahead on 13-1.