Lucia was supposed to last all day, but about four hours into the journey, the boat's electric system crackled and popped.

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He returned in time for the end of the one-day series and took a hat-trick in the fifth and deciding match in St Lucia to help England to victory.

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At the end of a sandy track leading out of town into the surrounding scrubland, in a house made of rough-hewn branches covered in clay, Lucia Vieira looks after her two children while her husband is out earning a mere 5 reais a day as a farm labourer.

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