Ten days after the dizzying conclusion of England’s wafer-thin Test defeat in New Zealand and Ben Duckett’s head is still spinning. Within hours he was heading for a brief holiday in Dubai, this Tuesday he arrived in Bangladesh, on Wednesday he had his first and only session in the nets, and on Thursday he played a T20 international.
Given he had been “on a sun lounger a couple of days ago”, Duckett might have been excused a little lack of focus, but there was no sign of his mind being elsewhere until he played across one that kept low. “I tried to stick to my strengths. It went all right and then I missed one,” he said.
