Lauren Filer might have spent the run-up to last Christmas working in Tesco, had she not been rather unceremoniously dropped a few months before.
“I actually got the sack - I didn’t turn up because I was playing too much cricket,” she explains rather sheepishly, though it sounds as if she was pushed only fractionally before she had chance to leap. “I mean, it was something I was doing on the side and even if they hadn’t done it, it wouldn’t have been feasible for too much longer.”
