For the past five years Harmer has been a luminescent walking wonder and wicket threat in county cricket
Simon Harmer plonks down on a plastic seat at Edgbaston’s Birmingham end, Essex’s home for the length of their Championship game against Warwickshire. It’s lunch on the third day and there are 20 minutes before play restarts.
For the past five years Harmer has been a luminescent walking wonder in county cricket, causing panic through the opposition as he strides in to bowl, sunglasses on, jumper worn long over his bottom. In his first season for Essex in 2017, he took 72 wickets at 19.19; in 2018, 57 at 24.45; in 2019, 83 at 18.28; in 2020, 38 at 15.06 (in six games of the Bob Willis Trophy).
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