Bouncing back from the ‘tough pill to swallow’ of being dropped
Peaks and troughs in form are par for the course for any sportsperson, something England bowler Dom Bess now knows all too well, writes Ben Burrows
"It was certainly a tough pill to swallow. I didn't see it round the corner."
High end sport isn't for the faint-hearted, something England bowler Dom Bess now knows all too well.
Despite taking 17 wickets in the first three matches of the winter on the sub-continent, the Yorkshire off-spinner saw himself replaced for the now infamous two-day defeat in Ahmedabad last week, paying the price for a bad few days at the office in the second Test in Chennai a week previous.
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