This was Sam Curran’s face midway through yesterday’s innings at the Rose Bowl.
Has anyone in the history of the world ever looked more serious than this?
We’re aware that sometimes people’s facial expressions don’t accurately reflect their state of mind, but this is no fleeting thing. This is what Sam Curran looks like 100 per cent of the time when he’s batting.
From the moment he came out to the moment he expressed frustration at himself for getting out via a weird rigid-armed scream, this was Sam Curran’s face.
It’s a face that says ‘this is the most serious task anyone has ever undertaken and I fully intend to treat it as such’.
It’s a face that’s heard of smiling, but can’t understand why anyone would ever be so flippant when there’s such serious work to do.
We don’t even need to list alternatives and give them scores for seriousness because Sam Curran’s batting face is literally as serious as a face can get. Sam Curran’s batting face defines the uppermost limit of the scale of facial seriousness.
No-one has ever looked more serious than Sam Curran.
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