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Here in the commentary box we've got a debutant with us, which is very exciting and also a very

special guest joining us today. I'm very pleased to say that alongside a sportist lunch break

two of England's finest bowlers, two of the finest bowlers, women's cricket has seen.

One has retired from all formats, that is you and your shop cell. One has just retired

from Test Match Cricket and I believe I may have heard just a noise or two from the crowd

yesterday from a very eager supporter, Catherine Brunt, lovely to have you with us. You have

not retired from all formats just Test Match Cricket, but you are here watching on and enjoying

the action. Now tell me about yesterday as a supporter, how was it?

It was nice to be on the other side of it to be fair. Just to be able to relax and

not have to worry about the body breaking in half for a few hours was lovely and relaxing.

Well let's go through exactly where we've got to in terms of both of your careers because

Annie you made the decision post-World Cup final, that was it. You'd done your service

and you'd made that call. When did you come to that decision?

I probably knew it was very much on the cards before we headed out to Australia for the

Asher series to be honest. When we came back into training after the summer at the

being late October, November I probably then started to think about it and thought we've

got an Asher coming up, we've got a World Cup coming up. Just give this one more kind

of push to get to there and see how that goes. I think I knew before I headed out on that

tour that that was almost certainly going to be my last.

Did you know Catherine that Annie was thinking about Rotary?

We both talked about retirement about five years ago and I continued for about once a

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