Hartley is of athletic inventory, fairly actually: his father, Bill, gained 4x400metre relay medals for Great Britain at each the European Championships and Commonwealth Games through the Nineteen Seventies. He was by no means pushed in direction of the observe, although, as an alternative beginning out with soccer till a change of college introduced an introduction to cricket and the next realisation that he was somewhat higher with bat than boot. Even then, although, he courses himself as one thing of a late-bloomer, the peak – and subsequently high-release – that has piqued England’s curiosity not at all times such a boon.