Moeen Ali: ‘If it wasn’t for cricket I don’t know what I’d be doing now’

The hat-trick England spinner describes how a junior club in Birmingham kept him off the streets and off drugs, his father’s distressing experience of racism and how his high profile helps counter negativity regarding Islam“How’s it going?” Moeen Ali asks as if it’s just another ordinary summer afternoon rather than an hour since he became only the fourth man in history to complete a Test victory by taking a hat-trick.Moeen’s deceptively casual way of answerin