🗣 'One can only take people as one finds them in life, and this correspondent always found Ballance to be one of the good guys.'
Gary Ballance, pictured in action during the T20 quarter-final against Sussex in one of his final first-team appearances, will be a big loss to Yorkshire. Photo by Nigel Roddis/Getty Images.
Whatever the ins-and-outs of this wretched scandal, which continues on Tuesday with another DCMS “hearing” that will no longer be chaired by Julian Knight MP, whose whip has been removed, perhaps ironically, Ballance is simply the latest casualty of it, central or collateral.Happier times. Gary Ballance, left, and Azeem Rafiq, right, celebrate with David Willey after the dismissal of Kent's Alex Blake in a One-Day Cup quarter-final at Canterbury in 2016. Photo by Sarah Ansell/Getty Images.
One can only take people as one finds them in life, and this correspondent always found Ballance to be one of the good guys.Darren Gough, the Yorkshire managing director of cricket, is desperately sorry to see him go; ditto the rest of the coaches, the players, the club staff and supporters.Indeed, Ballance is one of the few figures in all of this who is universally liked and admired in the game of cricket, not just at Yorkshire.
Word had it that he was going to come back in the One-Day Cup; Ballance made a couple of second-team hundreds just prior to that and then cracked 95 off 25 balls in a warm-up game for the 50-over tournament at Northumberland.A return at Scarborough seemed likely at one stage, where the welcome would no doubt have been especially warm, for it is a ground, a setting, that inspires warmth.
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