Oval Invincibles’ head coach Jonathan Batty had to ring her mum to get permission for the teenager to play, but don’t expect the young Surrey star to be overawed
Sixteen-year-old Alice Capsey’s call-up to play for Oval Invincibles in the Hundred was unusual, to say the least. “Because of my age our head coach, Jonathan Batty, had to phone my mum first and get her permission. Then he was finally allowed to ring me!” she recalls. Her reaction? “I was lost for words. I wasn’t expecting it.”
That was
Christmas 2020: four months after the first edition of English cricket’s brand-new all-singing, all-dancing competition, the Hundred, was supposed to have been played. Covid put paid to that.