A year after his England debut, Duckett was sent home from last year’s England Lions tour to Australia after pouring a drink over James Anderson’s head in a bar in Perth during England’s 4-0 Ashes defeat. Anderson later described the incident as “not malicious” and “a bit of a non-event”.

While it was generally accepted that it wasn’t a major misdemeanour, the timing of the incident – months after Ben Stokes’ arrest outside a Bristol nightclub and weeks after Jonny Bairstow’s alleged ‘headbutt’ greeting of Cameron Bancroft earlier in the tour – meant that he was subject to a suspension, a fine and a final written warning.

It’s easy to forget that Duckett is still only 24. After a stellar breakout year across all formats in 2016, he won both the PCA Young Player of the Year and PCA Player of the Year Awards before making his Test and ODI debuts for England on their tour of Bangladesh.

Despite 2018 being a difficult year for Duckett – he averaged just 24.95 in first-class cricket – he still won an England Lions recall and impressed on their recent tour of India, averaging 43.75 in the two-match unofficial ‘Test’ series against India A.

On his England Lions recall, Duckett said: “It was a tough 12 months, I wasn’t sure when or if I was going to get a call, and when I came back from the franchise (Mzansi Super League in South Africa) and got the call from Ed Smith it was a lovely surprise.

“I wasn’t expecting it. It’s probably been my worst summer since I started playing, but the other side of that is that it shows the faith he has in me, that was a lovely thing to come back to.

“It feels now almost everything is coming back in the right space and it’s completely down to me now to get back to start scoring the runs I know I can.”