Break a leg

The women have played eight World Cups so far and Cricinfo asked former and current players what their lasting memories from each tournaments was

07-Mar-2009

1982, New Zealand
Gill McConway
I am struggling to remember stories from 27 years back, really.An interesting
feature of the 1982 World Cup was that Dickie Bird had been invited to umpire
throughout the tournament.It was so windy we had to play without bails, because even
the heavy ones wouldn’t stay on. Dickie’s first game was a warm-up, which a lot of
people had come to watch. There were lots of them pointing and saying, “That’s the
famous England umpire.”And then one of the big Australian girls from our
International XI, Rhonda Kendall, hammered the ball to the square-leg area. She hit
it so hard that Dickie, probably still jet-lagged, just dropped to the ground as it
smashed into his leg. I really felt for him.I noticed he stood a lot further back after that!