“‘I was at a point where I thought: ‘This is make or break’,” Ollie Robinson says as he describes the first of two different debuts that helped shape his transition from confusion and loss. The 29-year-old fast bowler will be one of England’s key players when they face Australia in the opening Ashes Test next Friday – but a shocking early death and a public shaming shroud those contrasting games from his past.
“I didn’t have much to lose,” Robinson says as he continues the story of his Sussex debut in April 2015. “I might have got out for nought but I had to try and put on a show and get my name back out there.”
