Putting the Steel in Surrey

By Sam Dalling
It isn't that Cameron Steel is uncomfortable with the topic. He just hadn’t anticipated that his days of bowling double-bouncing deliveries in the second XI would be a point of interest given that, three rounds in, his 20 Vitality County Championship wickets at 12.15 is the country’s best haul.
But for there to be a ‘now’, there must have been a ‘then’ – for Steel that was three summers infected by cricket’s most lethal ailment: the yips.
“I remember the feeling,” Steel tells TCP. “There were a few tears involved. It was shocking. I wouldn’t want to go back to it.”
It began in ...

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