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Issy Wong was in year four when Chance to Shine came into her primary school, Bentley Heath in Solihull, with their duffle bags of plastic bats, stumps and balls. She had already played a bit of cricket beforehand at an after school club, but this was different. It involved her whole class, so instead of being one of only a handful of girls in a club of 60 kids, she was actually in the majority.
