Tim Ambrose's dark days

“I was wasting my time and everyone else’s,” he says, “I was at rock bottom. I didn’t have a great network – I’d moved across the world from my family and dedicated everything to cricket. There were things that were making life very difficult for me on a daily basis. The idea of playing cricket just seemed absurd.”

Ambrose needed help. He rang a sports psychologist who had done some work with Warwickshire. They met at a motorway service station. She asked some questions. Four hours later Ambrose was still talking. He even received a parking ticket. But it was worth it. He had begun his path back, however rocky it has been.