Lost to cricket for 35 years, a founding member of Australia's WODI side returned to the game and found a special way to leave her mark

It was a couple of years back now that Patsy Fayne found out she had between three and five years to live.

"They thought I had pulmonary fibrosis," Fayne tells cricket.com.au. "Unknown cause. So I started getting my affairs in order. Thought I better do something before I carked it."

For Fayne, who represented Australia 16 times from the late 1960s, that meant tying the two ends of her cricketing life together. Although she had been completely detached from the sport for 35 years in between, when it came to grappling with her own mortality, that mattered not a jot.

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