“By 2010 it was right on top of me, which is weird, because it was probably the highlight of my career, with the T20 World Cup. Within a month of that I just didn’t want to be around people. It was very weird to go from such a high to a consistent low.

“I was fighting a vicious circle of the rational brain saying – you should be enjoying this – and then I felt the guilt, thinking – this isn’t just my dream, it’s the dream of a lot of people, something they would love to be doing, and something to be enjoyed, not to be dreaded. It was getting bigger and bigger.” Yardy recalls being run out playing for Sussex with Murray Goodwin and lashing out verbally. “I was batting and he turned his back on me. I had a rage of a fit,” he says. “Something in my head was telling me he did it on purpose.” Running through his story is perseverance in the face of distress played out on cricket fields across England and the world. “When I was batting and bowling that was a release,” he says. “I’ve always enjoyed that battle. Sometimes when I was fielding, that’s when I would have a bit more time to think.