Holden sticks

Holden sticks to traditional values

By Jon Batham
With the 2024 IPL resembling baseball more and more by the day, and scores going through the roof, there’s never been a better time for batters to ditch the traditional whites and join the pyjama brigade.
Notable figures like Dawid Malan are among those to have succumbed to the temptation of white-ball only contracts and Middlesex’s Max Holden faced a similar dilemma. The left-hander had been without a first-class hundred for six years before his 211* against Northamptonshire, a score backed up with 111 against Gloucestershire last week.
By contrast, his white-ball stock was ris...

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