Bess is a confident character who is constantly striving to get better

One ball was all that it took. Two years ago Dominic Bess was summoned suddenly as an 18-year-old to make his first-class debut for Somerset against Pakistan at Taunton. No one was quite sure how he might respond.

The off spinner’s first ball did not produce a wicket — indeed he went wicketless in the match in his 30 overs, conceding 128 runs — but he did something that stuck with his director of cricket, Matthew Maynard. “His first ball was to one of the Pakistan openers just before lunch,” Maynard says. “He bowled it on a good length and then he walked to his mark facing the batter.

Bess, then 18, sought Younus Khan out for advice about his bowling TWITTER

“I really liked that. As soon as I saw that I thought, ‘This guy has got