It may have been a mismatch on the day – a battering to use Harry Brook’s recent phrase of choice – and one that booked England’s place in the semi-finals of the men’s T20 World Cup. But when Chris Jordan sealed a hat-trick to send the final dregs of the USA’s innings down the plughole, the feels out in the middle were real.
Kensington Oval is where Jordan caught the bug as a kid, be it the inter-school finals he played in for Combermere or the international cricket watched; the ground where, aged five, he came to watch his first Test match between West Indies and England in 1994 and was transfixed by the buzz in the stands, the sound of conch shells being blown.
