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The hotel also features a rooftop bar, a lobby bar, a business center with free computers, and even duckpin bowling and Five Iron Golf on-site.

Rather than falling in a flurry of expansive strokes, they lacked any sort of batting rhythm and a meek procession against canny yet unspectacular bowling followed.

With warm wood paneling, exposed concrete, terrazzo and low steel railings, the lively space feels both modern and nostalgic, with references to its past life as a bowling alley.

This, however, means quite a few teams field players who are almost making up the numbers in terms of batting in the lower order and not bowling.

The 22-year-old took nine wickets in seven matches for Manchester Originals in The Hundred, regularly bowling around 90mph while threatening with the new ball in particular.