‘He’s got raw power and incredible talent’: Meet Aneurin Donald, England’s new T20 star – why he won’t join in with the football warm-ups, his ‘blaze of glory’ mantra and how he impressed Brendon McCullum

It is just over a decade since Aneurin Donald, who will make his England debut in Tuesday’s first T20 against Sri Lanka, was terrorising motorists in the usually peaceful north Welsh seaside town of Colwyn Bay.

An exaggeration? Only just. Because during the course of a championship innings of 234 off just 136 balls for Glamorgan against Derbyshire in July 2016, aged just 19, he hit 15 sixes, not to mention 26 fours. 

After making what Wisden described as ‘a sketchy start’, five of his blows dented cars parked in the members’ enclosure, while another assaulted a passing bus.

Asked whether he had intended to

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