Why Australia are copying England’s playbook to unearth their next Ashes star… from Yorkshire – and how Virat Kohli was humbled by a train ticket salesman
This week my phone illuminated at a speed that I have not seen anymore, because Jos Butler almost hit me with a cricket ball.
At the time, a video I posted that last winter on the border in Barbados was in the shooting line of a bit of a buttler range that held in training, jokes described as my ‘greatest performance in journalism’. At least I hope it was a joke.
But this week that post has a challenger, who bursts the charts with more than 100,000 interactions on X.
This time no video. Just a post in which the first test was recognized by a Yorkshireman in this year from 2025. Given their excellent form in the past six months, predictive who would raise the bat from Joe Root and Harry Brook was the first to be a fool.
So thanks to Josh Inglis, from Australia, no less, for the decent thing, to step in a step and end months of potential debate.
The photo I posted from 2008 from Inglis as a student year 8 at St Mary’s Menston in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, who collected a sports prize from three members of Leeds Band Kaiser Chiefs, who returned to perform the prizes as former students, received A lot of attention.
Josh Inglis ran to a Testton on debut on just 90 balls against Sri Lanka in Galle

It was the second fastest century on debut in tests, behind Shikhar Dhawan’s in 2013
Analysis of hairstyles, Inglis hadn’t changed a bit that someone suggested, where was Ricky Wilson?
It was all a bit fun. In the end, however, I punctured the EMU. How do I dare to have the time to suggest that Australia had chosen a pom, especially after he raced on the second fastest on debut in test history, only 90 balls against Sri Lanka in Galle.
Only India’s Shikhar Dhawan, five balls faster against Australia in 2013, can surpass that.
I have to admit that, in view of what we have seen this winter, the thought that an Englishman may have been specifically selected for his ability to spin, as Inglis was, grew me.
But others didn’t see the funny side. Kevin Pietersen and Jonathan Trott, I was seriously reminded of it, were both picked from the South African inland cricket and parachuting in the English team.
That is not the course of history as I remember: both shells through the country for provincial tests that try to make a career here with the help of their British descent. I didn’t have to stand in the way of their indignation.
Nothing of course lets the juices flow like an ashes rivement. I do not dare to remind us of that Inglis – a former cricket player in Yorkshire age group whose family emigrated from Leeds to Perth in January 2010, was shy for six weeks for his 15th birthday – not the first century of Australia of 2025.
Usman Khawaja, born in Pakistan, led first, followed by Steve Smith, who qualified to play for England through his mother Gillian.

Inglis with his parents Martin and Sarah, ex-Australia Batterge Geoff Marsh, wife Megan and Kind Oscar while he gets his flodige green cap for his debut
Marnus Labuschagne, who grew up with speaking African before his family moved to Queensland from the northwestern province in South Africa, missed the run party.
The Australia team is richer because of its diversity and these players developed their cricket skills within their system – as England test captain Ben Stokes did here.
But Inglis is something of a hybrid. A triumph on two fronts. His formative cricket was in the UK and became four seasons for Yorkshire between less than 11 and younger than 14 years, before parents Martin, a Tilder, and Sarah, an airport worker, decided they wanted to make West -Australia, a regular holiday destination, their Permanent house.
An Aussie -Veneer could not hide his English accents when they spoke about their pride this week about the performance of their son.
And Inglis had to be demonstrably twice as hard to prove himself as an outsider in Perth, so that ‘pommie’ sledges in the early days to break 246 of a total of 557 to six, while Jondalup Gosnells crushed with 392 points in Perth’s Grade Final of 2015.
When I interviewed him a few years later for Postsport, during his time as a player of the national performance team, he spoke about his love for Coventry City and how a career goal to attract the flodige green with his support for England.
“Players with dual nationalities are quite common in international cricket and it creates interest, I think, but to be honest I would play for Kenya if I could,” he said.
‘I just want to play cricket at the highest possible level. I don’t think I would go back to England now and, although you can never fully demonstrate things, I think I made the decision to play for Australia a few years ago. I am committed to take my career as far as possible.

Inglis grew up to support England, but no one would now doubt his Australianness

He previously played against the land of his birth, including in last year’s one -day series

England was criticized for choosing the South African Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen
“This is my job. People move jobs, move companies and would not get S *** for it, but if you move the country as a sportsman, you will be in the spotlight. ‘
It is indeed a usual practice in professional sport. Simply count the number of Kiwi accents in the Six Nations team of Ireland.
Time also changes things and although no one this week witnesses his brilliant batting, his Australian could now doubt his background for an intriguing subplot if he would hold his place for the ashes of five games later this year.
Despite his striking start, after he has worked for the top of the international cricket because of winning 55 White-Ball Caps, there is no guarantee for it, with the Wunderkind Sam Konstas being the garlic bread from his country.
But if he stands in line against the land of his birth, I can promise to tell this story again, and to scream from ‘shut up ya pommie bastard,’ don my eyes hat.
If only I had done that for Buttler’s Batting in the Kensington Oval Nets 14 months ago, isn’t it?
Kohli still the king – but for how long?
While Abhishek Sharma, the prince to the throne, was the attack from England to all parts, Virat Kohli fell that he still rule when it comes to Indian Cricket, and 15,000 people to the first morning of a Ranji -Trophy match between Delhi and railways.
Perhaps they wanted their names record for posterity, because this was Kohli’s first performance in a domestic first -class competition since November 2012 – even Sachin Tendulkar, his predecessor in the Batting -Dynasty of India, had played more recently.
The presence of Kohli, after the dictum of the Indian board that his star men have to perform in the competition when they are available after their humiliating winter defeats by Nieuw -Zeeland and Australia, even led the game on television.
Disappearingly, Delhi First and Kohli’s contribution to an innings victory, for a reduced day-of-crowd, was only six.

The off-stuff from Virat Kohli is blown away by a senior ticket collector at the New Delhi train station
It is an extension of the bad form that he has chased in Australia and was sealed with a beautiful cartwheeling off-stupid of the bowling of 29-year-old Himanshu Sangwan, whose day task is as a senior ticket collector at New Delhi train station.
It was his last planned Red-Ballinings before the test series of India in England this summer.
And in contrast to 2018, when he arranged a deal of three games with Surrey – Alec Stewart, director of the Club of Cricket, the signed contract has unpleased due to a neck injury – there is no time to develop a batting rhythm in the provincial championship in advance The series starts on June 20.
Consistency kills Crawley
It withdrew eyebrows in 2022 when Brendon McCullum suggested that the skills of Zak Crawley are not a consistent cricket player. ‘
Of course, given that he has the lowest average of every English opener to have played 50 test links, there are people who would argue the opposite.
And it was consistency for him this week when his SA20 franchise Sunrisers Eastern Cape dropped him after scores of 12, 27, 1, 38, 4, 0, 6 and 0.
Sam’s cooks an aerose cabinet

Sam Cook is building an English business with its performances on the Lions Tour of Australia
In recent years, England has been removed from choosing players based on their provincial statistics.
Take a look at people like Shoaib Bashir, Josh Tongue and Will Jacks, who have had every success in the Testarena.
Sam Cook’s oeuvre with the new ball for Essex would have earned a test cap long ago under a different regime, but he had no view under Bazball.
So it was nice to see that he refuted the theory that bowling in Australia is completely about pace, by giving back tour figures from 13 to 186 for the Lions.