By Richard Edwards
"Time will tell if she has made the right decision,” laughs Pete Free, head of women and girls’ development at the Norfolk Cricket Board.
He’s responding to The Cricket Paper asking if Lauren Hemp could have made it as a professional cricketer before focusing her attention on a career in football.
The Norfolk-born striker – many judges’ player of the tournament as England have ridden their luck to make it to the World Cup final against Spain – is as well-known a figure in cricket as football in East Anglia.

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