A little over a year ago, soon after the Southern Brave squad assembled before the inaugural season of the Hundred, Tymal Mills, an injury-plagued fast bowler who had played the last of his five Twenty20 internationals three years earlier, and the spinner Jake Lintott, had a chat about the future. “I remember T talking to me, saying: ‘I’m going to play for England after this,’” Lintott remembers. “I was a bit taken aback because he’d had loads of injuries and not played much cricket.”
A couple of months later Brave had won the trophy, and Mills was on the plane to the T20 World Cup.
