Tristan Stubbs has hit the big time, but he’ll always be a smalltown kid

“I get back after play and we talk some nonsense for a while. But I’ll close my door at nine o’clock, and that’s it.” – Tristan Stubbs

Telford Vice / Cape Town

TRISTAN Stubbs is put together like a wandering albatross. That’s not to say he looks like one. Albatrosses don’t have his booming smile, wildly alive eyes, hectic hydra of hair or enthusiasm for all things cricket.

And they wouldn’t be seen dead wearing his moustache.

“He’s done a lot of things right on this tour; a lot of ...