‘My dream is to be England’s opening bowler’: Josh Tongue on Botox and getting Steve Smith out

England and Nottinghamshire paceman had unusual injections that saved his career and wants everyone to know how to pronounce his name

“It’s Tongue as in T-U-N-G, not Tongue like T-O-N-G! What is that? TONG?”

Josh Tongue is in his three-year-old son’s playroom, but it isn’t a toddler he is putting to bed. The 28-year-old has heard commentators offer up a few pronunciations of his surname since he made his Test debut in 2023. It seems some of them have got it all, well, a bit Pete Tong.