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