Jake Lintott was 27 years old when he signed his first professional contract with Warwickshire ahead of the 2021 season and quickly became one of the feelgood stories of the white-ball summer. A journeyman left-arm wristspinner from Taunton, Lintott spent most of his twenties trialling with county second teams but unable to find a team who would take a punt on an idiosyncratic club bowler. England tried to use him as a net bowler to prepare to face Kuldeep Yadav during India's 2018 tour but he was unavailable. Despite a handful of first-team appearances in the T20 Blast for Hampshire and Gloucestershire, he couldn't win a deal..