In this extract from the upcoming Wisden Cricket Monthly, Ben Duckett tells Phil Walker how a shift in attitude got his career back on track
We are talking in the gap between the first two Tests. Leeds is fresh in the mind but fading; Duckett is mucking in back home in Nottingham, grabbing some time with his long-term partner, Paige, their young daughter Margot, and the family dog.
It’s not only a joy, he says, but a useful way of detaching himself. “I think in the past, I’m living the high of last week, and I’m probably staying with mates and having too many beers and, you know, you probab...
