Zafar Ansari

Published: July 6, 2017, midnight

b'We gear up for summer with a conversation about cricket, politics and life.\\xa0 Zafar Ansari studied at Cambridge, played cricket for England and now, at the age of 25, has retired from professional sport to take up other challenges.\\xa0 We talk to Zafar about what prompted his decision and what his cricket career taught him about things other than cricket.\\xa0 He tells us about the politics of the dressing room and the role of race and class in sport.\\xa0 He also tells us what it was like to discover Trump had won the presidency while he was playing a test match for England in India.'