England opener Zak Crawley will be eyeing a successful outing in the ongoing Ashes series to establish himself as a key member of the Test team. The right-handed batsman’s place in the high-flying England Test has been questioned on a number of occasions in recent times.

While he was constantly backed by the team-management since last year, his average during this period was only 27.69 before he opened the innings in the first Ashes Test. And Crawley has justified the team-management’s faith in him by scoring an impressive 61 on day 1 of the ongoing Test at Edgbaston. He set the tone for the innings by playing a stunning drive on the very first ball of the match and went on to score a memorable fifty.

Zak Crawley’s father’s incredible journey:

While Zak Crawley is still trying to make a big name for himself in the game, his father Terry knows a thing or two about it. In the last 90s, Crawley senior hit the headlines thanks to his stunning success as a trader. After starting out as a carpet fitter earning around £100-a-week (approx. 10,000 in current Indian valuation), he decided to try his luck in financial trading with a firm called Tullett & Tokyo on the London Futures Exchange.

Later, he set up his own firm, Crawley Futures, in 1988 where he became known as ‘Terry the Till’. And 9 years layer, he hit the headlines with his ‘Rugs to Riches’ story. According to a report in The Independent from 1999, Terry earned a whopping £23million (approx. 241 crore in current Indian valuation) in a single year. At that time, he was behind only musicians Elton John, Sting, Eric Clapton and Phil Collins as the fifth highest-paid person in the UK.

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