ISABELLE WESTBURY

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School of hard knocks: Charlotte Edwards began her career as an amateur and so developed a fighting spirit that would help her as a leader of England
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Professionalism in sport, and everything that comes with it, is of course a largely positive development. For all the fire that the ECB, and its home broadcaster Sky, have come under for taking cricket off free-to-air television, it is easy to forget that much of the money that came from this deal was channelled into England men’s Test team, bringing central contracts and, at on...