the surrey spin-bowling all-rounder , who celebrated his call-up with four essex wickets at the kia oval , graduated from cambridge two years ago with a double first in politics and sociology .
he is halfway through a 40,000-word masters on the 1960s civil rights movement in the american south , and plays the piano to a high level .
it 's fair to say he would be england 's most academically gifted cricketer since ed smith -- another cambridge double first -rrb- won three test caps in 2003 .