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Lauren Winfield-Hill: From hospital bed to bowling lucky dip

Lauren Winfield-Hill reflects on a bizarre week that took her from hospital after a throat injury to watching old friend Ami Campbell take three wickets.
Ami Campbell did a job with the ball for her captain Lauren Winfield-Hill

 

It’s been a very weird week for me. I went from staying the night in hospital after our game against Hampshire and having a camera put down my throat to playing against Essex a couple of days later.
I got hit straight in the throat when I was keeping in Southampton and knew something wasn’t right pretty quickly.
It wasn’t actually the pain of getting hit, although that was pretty uncomfortable, it was my body’s response to it which was really weird.
I literally could not get up from off the ground, and my whole body went floppy.
Strangest feeling
I felt like I was falling asleep on my feet ...

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