Leus du Plooy’s first visit to Lord’s was nothing out of the ordinary, a trip to watch England’s draw with South Africa, the country of his birth, in 2008. The (attempted) second, however, for what was supposed to be a guided tour of the ground, was rather more eventful.
"I came back with my school in 2011 and I bust my toe up in St John's Wood Station on an escalator,” he explains. “I turned back with flip-flops on and cut it. I was just running down the street with a massive bloody foot. I almost passed out from the blood.
