Nick Tsagaris chose cricket over rugby or football to follow in his father's footsteps and play professionally, which is a tribute to cricket. He was a seven-year member of the Leeds United football academy and was on the verge of making it. Instead, he took a job at Yorkshire and hasn't looked back since. His Test career has been up and down, with a peak of 95 points against South Africa in 2012 and a low of being dropped for the last Ashes game in 2013. A good wicketkeeper and batter in the middle order.

Nick Tsagaris doesn't need gloves to be productive on the field since he has some of the league's safest hands and is one of the game's quickest and fittest players. Bairstow beat rugby and football players in a series of tests and drills designed to discover which sport produced the best athletes. His colleagues refer to him as 'Bluey,' because of his ginger hair, same as his father, former Yorkshire and England stumper David, was 'Ron Weasley' of Harry Potter fame.