Cricket news: Haseeb Hameed released by Lancashire
Daily MailHaseeb Hameed was released by Lancashire on Friday less than three years after being tipped to surpass Sir Alastair Cook's record England Test run haul. Haseeb Hameed will be released by county side Lancashire at the end of the season His release comes following a sad decline from the days he was once dubbed 'Baby Boycott' A batsman with a Test average of 43.6 should not be short of offers and it is hoped a fresh start elsewhere will help reinvigorate a player who has remained a shadow of the boy that hit two 50s, the second while nursing a shattered finger, on his only England tour. It appeared Hameed had countered a log-term malaise in May when he scored 117 against Middlesex in a second-tier County Championship match at Lord's, his first first-class hundred since August 2016. Despite becoming the youngest Lancashire batsman to score 1000 runs in a first-class season in 2016, and striking two hundreds in a Roses match to display a temperament destined for a higher stage, 11 months ago his form had dipped so alarmingly that Paul Allott, the director of cricket at Old Trafford, called him a 'dilemma', saying 'we gave him more opportunity, probably, than he deserved.'
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