I’ve learnt – and this pleases me – that my dad’s cricketing life and my own will always be intertwined, even though I will finish far behind the number of appearances he made for Yorkshire and also his length of service at Headingley. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at their darkest and the grief in me was raw and at its worst. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
I look so much like my dad – same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead – and I play a little like him too. But I am my mother’s son. I am who I am because of her. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
Everyone who survives cancer knows the victory against it may only be temporary. You know eventually that you might have to fight all over again. Almost 15 years after my mum’s first bout of cancer, a second bout occurred. This time she needed an operation. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
No one saw me cry over my dad’s death for almost nine years. I hid what I felt, bottling up my emotions so tightly that almost nothing leaked out. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more than a decade away for me. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you – or to someone you dearly love – at any moment. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
You’re able to learn different things from different coaches and different players. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote