Roston Chase's ordinary fare proves too rich for England batsmen | Andy Bull


The Windies player bowls a sort of gentle off-spin that seems unremarkable, but it confounded both Rory Burns and Zak Crawley

There are cricketers you feel awestruck to watch, cricketers whose skill makes them seem almost superhuman, who have such grace, such power, such pace, that they seem to come from another realm to the rest of us. And then there’s Roston Chase. Chase bowls the sort of gentle off-spin that seems entirely within our reach, the sort of gentle off-spin which, in fact, really doesn’t seem all that different from the sort that hundreds of club cricketers serve up every weekend of summer.

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