Makıng Amends After a summer of mixed emotions, England’s Ollie Robinson sits down with the PCA’s Luke Reynolds to speak in-depth about his experiences.
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or both good and for bad, 2021 was a summer that England’s Ollie Robinson will never forget. The Sussex man has long been one of the best seamers on the county circuit. His 300 first-class wickets at a touch over 21 bearing testament. But it has been a long and on occasion bumpy road into the international set-up, the 27-year-old having been sacked by former club Yorkshire in 2014 as a result of ‘unprofessional
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actions’ before turning things around on the south coast. After going on his first England Lions tour in the winter of 2018-19, a patient Robinson realised a senior debut against New Zealand at Lord’s in the summer’s first Test. It was a day, spent at the Home of Cricket, that Robinson now describes as a ‘blur’ rather than a dream - with that dream turning to nightmare - as a series of historic discriminatory social media tweets emerged from a decade previously.
