Even Ben Compton doesn’t quite understand what’s happened in these last few weeks. Talking to him, it’s clear he hasn’t had time to reflect on the run of form that’s made the Kent opener the leading batsman in the country, and won him a call-up for the County Select XI to play New Zealand on Thursday.
“It’s all been so relentless that I don’t think it’s really sunk in,” he says. “I’ve just been busy trying to stay in the moment.” Compton has played nine games in nine weeks, and made 129 against Essex, 104 not out and 115 against Lancashire, 89 against Hampshire, 93 against Yorkshire, 47 and 63 not out against Surrey, 140 and 68 not out against Northants. With 878 County Championship runs at an average of 109 he must worry that if he thinks too hard about it he’ll wake himself up.
