The last six months in the career of Will Jacks have been such a whirlwind even his own clothes have not been able to keep up. Half a year ago he had never played for England in any format; now he has played in every format, completing the set by making his ODI debut against Bangladesh on Wednesday, hours after being reunited with a lost suitcase and gratefully clambering into some fresh underwear.
A week ago Jacks was in New Zealand as part of the Test squad but, after missing out on the team for what would prove a dramatic concluding match in Wellington, left for Dhaka. “I landed at midnight on the 25th but my bags didn’t arrive, and I didn’t get those until Tuesday morning, which made training quite hard,” he says. “I hit some underarms with Phil Salt’s gloves and Dawid Malan’s bat and I got some new training gear, but I had to wear the same underwear for two days, basically. I pretty much just sat on my bed in the same clothes for 48 hours, it was pretty depressing.”
