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Classic, View from the Boundary

With the Test Match Special Scene

Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnieu and welcome to another classic

View from the Boundary as part of our 40 from 40 series.

Now in early September 2018 England were taking on India at the Oval

in the final test of a memorable summer, a match of course immortalised by Sir Alistair

Cook's farewell century.

The second morning of the game it's in a flurry of runs as Joss Butler and Stuart

Broad had helped England recover from a precarious 181 for 7 to a much healthier 304 for 8.

And enjoying the action with someone with arguably one of the most important jobs in the country

leading the biggest police force in Britain.

Dame Cresseter Dick is the first woman to hold the post of Metropolitan Police Commissioner

having taken charge in 2017 and overseeing a force of over 40,000 staff.

But well before her policing days she was a wicketkeeper at Oxford University.

Can I start by saying I was quite definitely the worst wicketkeeper ever?

Well I was too bad.

In the days before women's cricket really took off.

No I was just so bad.

Why? How?

I can't even tell you some of the embarrassing things I did.

Well I think you should.

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