Living the sweet life

Hours like these he doesn’t miss.

Hours like these used eat him up. The nerves, all the waiting around, the team meetings; at times before big Test matches Dave Wallace would feel like running away somewhere and hiding, not wanting to go through with it.

In fact, very often that’s exactly what he’d do, at least after enduring one of those team meetings. He’d retreat to his hotel room and then the inner recesses and refuge of his own mind, assuring himself that he would be just fine.