I first started playing cricket properly at the age of 11 when a colleague of my Dad’s mentioned that he thought I had ‘decent hands’ and should go down to the local junior cricket nets at the Old Wulfrunians Cricket Club in the South Staffordshire Cricket League. My Dad had always played cricket and in fact appeared fielding at Headingley in a Test match between England and West Indies when Ian Botham and Mike Gatting got injured.