A New Angle to the Bazball Legacy
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Tom Hartley, who now has 14 wickets in two matches, might be the first child of Bazball.
Simon Kerrigan announced his retirement from professional cricket last September. It had been a good career on the whole. His maiden first class wicket with his left arm orthodox spin was Ian Bell. In 2011, he produced Lancashire's best bowling figures for half a century when, in a famous game that finished with four minutes left to play, he took 9-51 against Hampshire. That win, in the penultimate match of the season, set up Lancashire's first County Championship title since 1950. When he sent down the last of his 24,102 deliveries, he'd taken 364 wickets at a shade over 30 apiece. Really solid, that.
But Kerrigan will be remembered for none of it. Instead his reputation as a cricketer is tied to his one Test match appearance, which came against Australia