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Joseph ensures it's a crazy day, but this should be the norm, not freakish one-off
Evening Standard
|January 29, 2024
IN MOST circumstances, England might have had the hump at being upstaged, one of their greatest overseas Test victories not even the most remarkable of the day.
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However, given the identity of the victims of the other, you suspect they were happy enough to let this one slide.
While Tom Hartley was twirling his team towards victory, the best part of 6,000 miles away in Brisbane, the West Indies were already revelling in an historic success, their first in Australia since the turn of the century, inspired by an unlikely seven-for of their own.
Shamar Joseph's remarkable story had been thrust into the spotlight during the series opener, when the debutant - still working as a security guard in
This story is from the January 29, 2024 edition of Evening Standard.
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