The Pennines above Huddersfield are shrouded in snow and the temperature gauge reads just four degrees at training ground level. Aaron Mooy really is a very long way from Sydney, the place he once called home.
He is so much a part of the fittings of this place that no one blinks an eye when we sit down to talk in the bar which manager David Wagner’s squad share with members of a local crown green bowls club. Australia is not a Mooy preoccupation.
The 26-year-old did not watch any of the Ashes because he is not really inclined towards cricket, and clearly has a very limited batting repertoire.