Meg Lanning: 'I wanted to dig a hole and jump in'
“Are you going to have nightmares…” “Yes!” The question wasn’t even fully formed yet and Meg Lanning had provided the answer. No, she wasn’t going to sleep well after hitting the catch that would give footer Alana King a hat-trick, her country’s second in the women’s T20Is. To be honest, Lanning, the Australia captain, was a kind person about the situation, from burying his face in the Edgbaston grass there, where if you gave him 99 equal chances, he would take it, to grimacing in the background as reporters questioned King a few yards away. afterwards about the incident and then confronted the same reporters, knowing very well what was going to happen. “I’m going to have nightmares,” Lanning said. “I wanted to dig a hole and jump into it as fast as I could. I tried my best and I dropped it.” Softening the blow somewhat was the fact that Australia had one foot in the Commonwealth Games semi-finals with Barbados 53 for 8 at the time. Barbados managed just 64 before being blown away.
