15-05-2025
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Blue stumps, bright orange windballs zipping about. Kwik Cricket sets, a piece of nostalgia for any Noughties child. The knockabout tournaments for school, the small boundaries at a club down the road.
Salesbury Primary, in a village just north of Blackburn, are competing in one of those and between games, a mum – Helen, a PE teacher, a local tennis champion – takes her youngest child onto the outfield. She chucks underarms at her toddler to keep him entertained.
