Andrew Umeed

His international pathway ran through Scotland. He featured in two Under 19 World Cups for them, and he was included in a 24-man preliminary squad for the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia, though he missed the cut when the final 15 were chosen. His First Class debut came for Scotland against Afghanistan in an ICC Intercontinental match in June 2015.

Umeed's links with English county cricket began at 17, when Durham came close to signing him before he settled on a deal with Warwickshire. There he worked on the fundamentals of his game. A family passport also allowed him to spend a couple of seasons at the Saeed Ajmal Academy in Pakistan, where he focused on his bowling. He sends down occasional legbreaks, but batting remains his main strength and the part of the game that drives him.

His first appearance for Warwickshire, in 2016, brought a century against a strong Durham attack, in a match where none of his teammates reached fifty in either innings. The following year he made another hundred in Edgbaston's first pink-ball Championship match, facing a Lancashire attack spearheaded by James Anderson. That innings took 429 minutes to reach three figures, which made it the second slowest century by time in county cricket history, and it summed up the determined, methodical approach he brings to batting.