Enid Bakewell: Coalminer’s Daughter
May 2018 · Lives in Cricket Book 49 · Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
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Enid Bakewell, one of England’s most successful and distinguished women cricketers, was the first woman player to have an article about her in Wisden, in 1970, after an outstanding tour of Australasia. She is now the first female subject in the ACS Lives in Cricket series. Simon Sweetman takes us through Enid’s playing career as an all-rounder and off the field as teacher and coach; and daughter, wife and mother. Articulate, approachable, Enid is a woman rooted in Nottinghamshire who has made friends across the world. She and her generation were true pioneers: when playing for the first time at Lord’s, they didn’t know if women would be allowed into the changing rooms.
About the author
After the University of Keele, dabbling in technical authorship and lecturing in liberal studies, Simon Sweetman spent his working life in tax. Since early 2007 he has been the editor of The Cricket Statistician.
Born a Hampshire supporter, and being of a certain age, he remembers most fondly the 1961 Championship win and as a result sees no problem with Old Etonians captaining cricket teams, while not seeing them as capable of much else.
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