“I don’t want to be a product of my environment,” drawls Frank Costello – Jack Nicholson’s Boston mafia boss – at the start of Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. Luckily for Frank, his ambition was to become a crime kingpin rather than a cricketer.
Every cricketer has their own origin story, from the weekend warrior to the globetrotting superstar. If you ask them about these first flushes their eyes often light up, a glint that takes them back to childhood and a time when the game first grabbed them.
