Two serious injuries in the winter curtailed his involvement and his young, lithe frame may not - time will tell - be suited to the punishing demands of fast bowling.

With his muscularly lean, lithe frame and hungry eyes glaring out of an ashen face, he exudes a baleful sense of seduction underscored by a trace of cold disgust.

At first doing coke gives you a lithe frame, as the hyperactivity takes hold and minor miracles are seemingly achieved with ease.