By Jo Harman
Ollie Pope started the Check summer time in an unfamiliar quandary. The county runs which he’d plundered at such a prolific charge since making his first-class debut in 2017 had abruptly and unexpectedly dried up.
Ten County Championship knocks had introduced England’s No.3 a solitary half-century and a median of twenty-two.88 – a dramatic drop-off from his general first-class common for Surrey of 63.84.
As England’s vice-captain, and with recollections of his beautiful 196 at Hyderabad in January nonetheless recent, Pope’s Check place was by no means underneath any menace. However after making a cathartic century towards Wes…
