Not many 32-year-old pace bowlers are welcomed back into the England fold with a glowing reference after a two-year hiatus, but Ollie Robinson has done just that.
Awkward to face previously but additionally to educate and captain, Robinson has been named within the Test squad to play Recent Zealand at Lord’s this week with Rob Key, England’s team director, describing him as “top-of-the-line bowlers on this planet”.
There was a rider to Key’s praise and it was that Robinson only reaches those exalted heights when he’s fit and bowling at 83mph, two things he increasingly neglected after a fantastic begin to his Te…