'He's got a brilliant cricket brain... he's 21 but already our best player': The making of England's next all-rounder James Coles - and why an uncapped amateur fisherman fetched £390,000 at the Hundred auction

Over coffee this week, Coles told his Sussex coach Paul Farbrace he had heard there would be interest in his signature at the Hundred auction in central London. There was rather more than that.