Post by hhsussex on Apr 26, 2017 11:23:07 GMT
...has retired at the age of 25, saying he has other ambitions to fulfil (www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39720334). With a double first in politics, philosophy and sociology he is well equipped for life outside the bubble of professional cricket, and after his history of injuries and an underwhelming Test debut last winter it isn't surprising he should be making this move now. Bad luck for Surrey, for whom he had played competently and sometimes more. After Batty goes, will there be any Surrey spinners?
A correspondent on the Surrey message board has this to say of him:
"He was one of a number of victims of the Adams era, a very young man playing when his university studies permitted. I could see immediately that he was a highly promising left-arm bowler and lower-middle-order batting. Adams, in his infinite wisdom, tried to turn him into an opener and marginalised his spin-bowling when he was available to play for us, in the second half of the summer, when it would have been most productive."
A correspondent on the Surrey message board has this to say of him:
"He was one of a number of victims of the Adams era, a very young man playing when his university studies permitted. I could see immediately that he was a highly promising left-arm bowler and lower-middle-order batting. Adams, in his infinite wisdom, tried to turn him into an opener and marginalised his spin-bowling when he was available to play for us, in the second half of the summer, when it would have been most productive."
