If his boyhood dream had come true, Harry Wilson would have engaged in his first battle against England in London with a baggy green on his head at Lords, not at Twickenham in red headgear.
The Wallabies captain is, in his words, a bona fide “cricket nuffy” and loves nothing more than devouring Ashes cricket; be it on home turf, or from the couch into the wee hours of the morning.
“It’s 8pm start [in an England series], so I will normally at least get the first two sessions in,” Wilson said. “I enjoyed our last Ashes series over here; we’ll take that as a win – it was a draw, but we’ll take it as a win.”
Wilson was a very handy cricketer at school, and in a knock that can be found on YouTube, famously smashed a 35-ball century…