As Will Jacks looks out upon his Surrey team-mates training at the Kia Oval and ponders how this ridiculously talented group have never won the Vitality Blast, he probably does not mean to bastardise Michael Jordan.
“It’s knockout cricket,” the all-rounder says, reflecting on last season’s one-run defeat to Yorkshire in the quarter-finals. “Even if you finish top of the group stage, like we did, you make a few mistakes and you lose in the knockout.
