Durham opener Ben McKinney followed up a formidable winter tour of Australia with England Lions by making a century in his second County Championship outing of the season, scoring 153 in his side’s one-wicket defeat to Warwickshire.
Scott Borthwick, the previous Durham skipper who’s now a player-coach at Chester-le-Street, believes the 20-year-old former England under-19 captain could break into the Test team this summer, and McKinney definitely catches the attention.
An aggressive left-hander who likes to play his shots, he’s unusually tall for a batter, at around 6ft 7in.
Generally, young crick…
