TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS MAY, George W Bush had just declared “mission accomplished” in Iraq, Rishi Sunak was a 23-year-old analyst at Goldman Sachs, the European Union had only 15 member states and Netflix was a DVD mail-order business. And a whippet-thin fast bowler with peroxide-tipped spiky hair took his first three wickets in Test cricket by hitting middle stump each time.
Not bad for a lad who was playing club cricket for Burnley the previous summer (though the manner of those dismissals may say something about the defensive skills of Zimbabwe’s batsmen as much
