Tawhid Qureshi meets Nathan Fernandes, Middlesex’s youngest debutant centurion for over 150 years, and learns that he almost took up swimming

Middlesex’s Nathan Fernandes is clearly a precocious talent, and in his conversation with the The Cricket Paper, his first ever extended interview, it is clear that his maturity belies his tender years.
Nineteen-year-old Fernandes’s 103 against Northants meant that he became the youngest first-class debutant for Middlesex to score a century, in living memory. You would have to trawl the record books all the way back to the 1860s, to find someone youn...