Kiwi George Bennett is embarking on his most ambitious season to date. Often a super-domestique on one of the peloton’s most powerful GC teams, he’s now got his own shot at the Giro d’Italia. Chris Marshall-Bell finds a man humble in the face of the pressure, more concerned with bigger world problems and, of course, the state of cricket.
MERIBEL, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 16: George Bennett of New Zealand and Team Jumbo - Visma / Julian Alaphilippe of France and Team Deceuninck - Quick-Step / Col de la Loze (2304m) / during the 107th Tour de France 2020, Stage 17 a 170km stage from Grenoble to Méribel - Col de la Loze 2304m / #TDF2020 / @LeTour / on September 16, 2020 in Méribel, France. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)George Bennett wants to discuss something that’s on his mind. “What on earth was going on with that pitch?” the Jumbo-Visma rider muses, stunned. “Were they playing on a bloody minefield or something?” The New Zealander is talking about the third cricket Test between India and England, that the latter lost inside two days, the […]
