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IS BANCROFT THE ANSWER FOR THE AUSSIES? - chairman - 11-13-2017
WHO IS HE?
At 24 years old (he’ll celebrate his 25th birthday four days before the start of the Ashes campaign), Bancroft has been playing regular first-class cricket since the 2013-14 Aussie winter.
A steady first season in the Sheffield Shield gave way to a breakthrough second and, in 2014-15, he finished third on the competition’s leading runscorers list with 896 at 47.15, having hit three tons including a daddy 211 against New South Wales.
He’s been close to a Test cap before, in 2015, only for Australia’s tour to Bangladesh - on which he had been named - to be scrapped because of security concerns, and he’s already made his debut for his country in Twenty20.
Bancroft has pedigree and a body of statistical proof to say he can cut it at the highest level, yet during 2016 he was slipping off the grid.
IS BANCROFT THE ANSWER FOR THE AUSSIES? - chairman - 11-14-2017
Bancroft's 228* surpasses his previous best, his marathon 211 against NSW in March 2015
IS BANCROFT THE ANSWER FOR THE AUSSIES? - ketchim - 11-14-2017
thought they wanted to BAN colin CROFT
