Read about Mel Jones's Profile, Latest News, Articles, Career updates only on ESPNcricinfo.com. Steve began to feel suffocated. She had been expecting to hear her 11-year-old son Rhys arrive home from after-school football. A right-handed batswoman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, she played 5 Test matches for Australia between 1998 and 2003, scoring 251 runs, highlighted by a 131 on debut against England in August 1998. Women's games during IPL 2019: what's the best way forward? Her father, a West Indian, stayed back in England and she did not meet him until the age of 16.

He was watching a film of our holidays. He needed to get back to work, to re-establish some kind of routine.

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This was to become a sticking point because Ste wanted to stay. ‘We’re not perfect,’ says Steve, ‘but we worked hard and we tried to put our boys on the right path; we were just an ordinary happy family. Queues formed at her till while others were empty as sympathetic shoppers wanted to speak to her. ‘I tended to grieve by screaming and raving but Ste is the opposite. He likes to take himself off and deal with things in his own way. ‘It wasn’t working.

It was like a huge void opened up and I fell into it.’, Mel could barely be bothered to get dressed and sat around crying or sitting in Rhys’s bedroom, staring at his football kits and those unworn, shiny shoes. On the back of Ian Thorpe's coming out on national television in July 2014, Fairfax Media has compiled a gallery of Australian sporting stars who are out and proud.

I felt like wearing a badge saying, “I’m having a good day today, please don’t make me cry!”’, Steve still works for Tesco, as a night manager.

One day I was downstairs sobbing, and I could hear him upstairs laughing. Momentarily plucked from grief by a flare of anger, Mel thought, ‘How dare you!’ But today she concedes that the police officer’s prophecy was (almost) right.

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He had taken a short cut and innocently walked into the middle of a vicious gang war. [5] She has also played 61 One Day Internationals for Australia, scoring 1028 runs with an average in the low-twenties. ‘We grieved in very different ways and, for a while, neither could understand the other,’ says Mel. The doctor told me things would be different in ten years’ time but I just could not imagine living ten years without him.

Jones has worked as an Ambassador with Australian charity, Red Dust, which promotes health initiatives in remote Aboriginal communities.