Liam loving life in the fast lane

learn from. Sometimes you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Left with scars to remember the evening, his progress on the field went unchecked and a decent tour to Sri Lanka with the Lions followed two winters ago. For all that forward motion though, his international recognition when it came last summer could not have gone worse. Given two T20s against South Africa at Taunton and Cardiff, he made a tortuous 14 and 0 and dropped a sitter. Once again the progress has picked up again this winter with him being made Lancashire captain.

Livingstone believes his brief exposure to international cricket will, in the long term, help him for all that he admits things did not go well.

“Looking back it wasn’t a great experience for me,” he said. “It was a massive learning curve though and it came at the right time. It is definitely something I will be able to use.

“But this will be a completely different environment this time and it’s an away tour as well. I am just looking forward to getting in and around the group and learning.

“I definitely feel a more mature person over the last year. Becoming more of a senior person at Old Trafford has matured me a bit, and that has helped my cricket.

“Two years ago today, I still hadn’t played a firstclass game, so the journey has been fairly quick for me and in some ways I still think it’s a good thing, because although I see myself as a senior member of the squad, I am still playing cricket with lads I have grown up with.

“I do feel responsibility because people can see the journey I have made and how quickly it can happen.

“If I don’t get the opportunity to play in a Test, it will still be a great month for me and my development, being in and around a worldclass group of players.

“I can bring that experience back to Lancashire for the start of the season.”