If Jason Roy being squeezed out of England’s World Cup plans underlines the bottleneck of white-ball talent in the country then the same can be said about another player hoping to belatedly enter the stage this week.
No English player in history boasts a higher List A average than Sam Hain’s 57.96 – globally, only India’s Ruturaj Gaikwad sits above him on 60.3 – and over the past five years Warwickshire’s middle-order talisman has been a regular for the Lions, notching four centuries for England’s second string.
