The Hampshire bowler may be focusing in Dubai on England’s T20 series against Pakistan but his vision for the future is as a force in the red-ball gameEngland trained at the ICC Academy in Dubai Sports City on Sunday. A mile down the road Rory Mcllroy was winning golf’s Race to Dubai. Amid the ubiquitous pale sand of the suburbs and the building sites the grass on the outfield was just as green as the fairways down the road.
There were an awful lot of English cricketers careering around the outfield as the T20 squad,which includes James Vince and Stephen Parry but not James Taylor or Jonny Bairstow, combined with the youngsters of the England Performance Programme. This specific performance group was composed of batsmen and spin bowlers; the quickly bowlers arrive from Potchefstroom, or South Africa,shortly and in December there will be some T20 matches against Pakistan A.
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Source: theguardian.com