Cricinfo asked former and current women players for their lasting memories from each of the eight World Cups so far. Janette Brittin, the former England batsman, remembers an eminently forgettable game from the fourth tournament
08-Mar-2009
Brittin, not in crawl mode © Getty Images
1988, Australia
JanetteBrittin
My memories aren’t very happy ones because it was not one of England’s besttournaments, and it certainly wasn’t for me personally. England may have reached thefinal, but unfortunately we didn’t make much of a game of it. It was quitea painful experience.I remember standing in the dressing room at the MCG andlooking out into the vast stadium and thinking, “Wow, this place is just massive.” Theground was wall-to-wall seating with no one sitting in them, which didn’t lenditself to a big-match atmosphere. We won the toss and elected to bat on a slow, lowtrack. Lyn Fullston, or Lefty as the Aussies called her, did all the damage withher unorthodox slow left-arm spin, and she was ably assisted by Lyn Larsen, theAustralian captain and legspinner.It was like watching paint dry and then playingin glue when you got out there (or so it seemed). Struggling to break through thering and get the scoring ticking over was just awful. We crawled to a paltrytotal of 127. Then to our dismay the Australians came out and appeared to blasttheir way to our total. I remember the ground seemed a very large and a very lonelyplace during those overs.
