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Lauren Winfield-Hill: Blast from the past shows how far we’ve come

Lauren Winfield-Hill reflects on a bizarre week for Yorkshire at Ampleforth, where a low-scoring thriller, school dormitories and a lack of broadcast coverage offered a glimpse into domestic cricket’s past.
Lauren Winfield Hill was surprised Alice Capsey wasn’t keeping for Surrey ahead of England’s series against Ireland

 

The One-Day Cup game I played in for Yorkshire against Surrey this week was eventful for several reasons.
First and foremost, it was a really good game of cricket.
If we hadn’t batted so terribly in the first innings we could have been on the other end of the result – I reckon 210 would have been a good score.
But it was a proper low-scoring thriller, and the pitch was a bit spicy.
Rolling the clock back
There was a novelty in playing at Ampleforth, which is a big private school in the middle of nowhere in North Yorkshire, but it had its downsides.
It was pretty rogue that we were playing t...

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