Gunn played 259 times for England across formats but in the third of those World Cup finals, in front of a full house at Lord’s, Gunn spilled an easy chance off Anya Shrubsole which would, and should, have been the winning moment – destined to be played on highlights reels for years to come.
Kane Williamson, on 62 and battling to draw the game and thus win the series for his team on the final afternoon, is foxed by a Jofra Archer slower ball, he plinks in the air to Denly at mid-wicket (“If I ever find myself fielding there for Kent now I get out of there sharpish before the PTSD sets in”).
“I’ll never to this day understand how you drop something like that,” Gatting recalls of his infamously simple spillage of Kiran More at silly mid-off during a 1993 Test against India in Chennai.
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With the ball looping gently to Gatting off the glove, the bowler Ian Salisbury is already celebrating and the umpire RS Rathore has his finger raised, so inevitable is the catch.
