Young Harry dreamed of hitting sixes at Lords. He’ll lead the Wallabies into battle at Twickenham instead

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 for the Gregory Terrace first XI, in Brisbane in 2017. One of his junior teammates was Nathan McSweeney, who Wilson heartily endorses as the obvious choice to fill the opener vacancy for Australia.

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