■By PAUL REES

WILL Rigg’s ambition was to become a professional cricketer but it is the oval ball rather than The Oval that is his driver now.
Rigg was in Warwickshire’s academy and spent a year in Australia honing his skills as a batsman, but he reached the point where he realised he was not going to make it.
He took himself off to Cardiff Metropolitan University, a seedbed for Premiership players, with no rugby ambitions but soon found himself playing for the first team and was approached by Coventry.
“I played rugby at school but cricket was the caree...