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THE wife of top England cricketer Jimmy Anderson has opened up about the devastating heartbreak of losing their first child.

The bowler rushed home to partner Daniella from a Test match in India when doctors failed to find a heartbeat at 13 weeks.

When James got the call he jumped on the first flight home to be with his wife as she went through the painful experience of miscarriage over several days.

But, once he reached her bedside, she was shocked by the reaction of medics – and the moment is etched in her mind.

“The midwife was asking for James’s autograph while I was in the middle of losing our baby,” Daniella recounts. “It was deeply inappropriate.”

And although they’ve gone on to have two healthy daughters since – Lola, nine, and eight-year-old Ruby – the pair still live with the devastating loss every day.

“It was life-shattering for us,” she says. “James was away in India and I couldn’t even call him because he was in the middle of a match.”

When he did finally arrive at the hospital, Daniella says: “He was absolutely devastated.

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“He was trying to support me through it and be sensitive to me but of course he was going through it too. It’s hard for the guys, they don’t have the same hormones and you don’t know how to expect them to be. I felt for him.

“He didn’t know how to handle me in my grief or for him to grieve.

“We talked a lot. He is a really sensitive soul and he was really upset.

“Physically it took me around eight months to recover.”

And while many marriages are rocked by miscarriage, Daniella says talking about the baby they lost has brought the couple closer together.

“James was very vocal in expressing pain and grief,” she says.

“He was always open. He’s a modern man. Men are allowed to be human too.”

Of that time James, 36, remembers: “In situations like this, when you’re thousands of miles away and a loved one needs you, you feel pretty hopeless as a husband. I wished away every minute of the 10-hour flight.

“What she had to endure, and my absence so far from home, highlighted the downside to being an international sportsperson. That was one of the most painful experiences of my life.”

And opening up about life with one of the world’s most famous cricket stars, former model Daniella explains: “I was modelling, travelling, living in London but going all over Europe. It was a good life.

“I met James in London in a nightclub in 2004. It was love at first sight.”

Daniella admits she knew very little about what life as a cricket WAG would entail.

“He was well known, but not by me,” she says. “I wasn’t a huge cricket fan but I didn’t know who he was. My dad did. I didn’t know much about cricket full stop.

“I knew there was something special about him when I met him. He was living up in Manchester and I was in London so we’d travel back and forth and then it progressed. It happened pretty quick.

“We’d been dating less than a year when he popped the question. But we knew we had something special. When you know, you know. I didn’t listen to the naysayers.”

The pair married in February 2006 in the Lowry Hotel in Manchester.

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