HEADINGLEY — Out of the hundreds of cricketers I have interviewed over the years, there are few who have been as self-assured or confident as Jordan Cox.
I first met him after he’d signed for Essex at the club’s pre-season media day in April 2024. They say there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance and Cox traversed it perilously.
Yet back then you were left in no doubt that he felt destined to play international cricket.
Two years earlier he had been called up by England at the age of 21 for a T20 tour of Pakistan. He did not play and it was the first of several near misses for a player who can count himself unlucky his chance did not come sooner.
Seven months after our meeting in Chelmsford, Cox was set for his Test debut in New Zealand, filling in as wicketkeeper for Jamie Smith, who had decided to miss the tour to be at the birth of his first child.
