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Derek Pringle: Ollie Robinson comes in from the cold to earn England recall

Not many 32-year-old pace bowlers are welcomed back into the England fold with a glowing reference after a two-year hiatus, but Ollie Robinson has done just that.

 

Not many 32-year-old pace bowlers are welcomed back into the England fold with a glowing reference after a two-year hiatus, but Ollie Robinson has done just that.
Awkward to face previously but also to coach and captain, Robinson has been named in the Test squad to play New Zealand at Lord’s this week with Rob Key, England’s team director, describing him as “one of the best bowlers in the world”.
There was a rider to Key’s praise and it was that Robinson only reaches those exalted heights when he is fit and bowling at 83mph, two things he increasingly neglected after a fine start to his Te...

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