Lives in Cricket No 49 - Enid Bakewell

100 1990s Midwest 132 for nine (Enid 19), South 122 for eight (Enid 11-2-37-2); and Midwest 208 for four (Enid 29, dropping to number three) East 85 for nine (Enid 10-0-28-3). Having played two and won two, one might have expected more, but the scores are lost. In November 1993 Enid was nominated for a Services to Sport award presented by Nottinghamshire County Council Leisure Services. The programme said multi-talented Enid was also a junior county badminton player and junior and senior county hockey player … an advanced coach and England selector, Enid still enjoys playing the game. In May [1993] she scored 104 not out for East Midlands in a game against Sussex . In the 1993 Area Championship on June 1 East Midlands played Middlesex, with East Midlands 172 for five, with Enid making 20 as an opener before being stumped, She then took four for 20 in 11 overs with Middlesex all out 126. However they were then thrashed by Yorkshire, East Midlands making 112 with Enid run out for ten, and Yorkshire winning by ten wickets. Enid bowled 11 overs for ten runs, but Yorkshire got home with four overs to spare. There was a game between the East (East Anglia and East Midlands) and India at Haileybury on July 17, 1993 with Enid at number one for the East. India scored 234 for one, Enid’s ten overs costing 42, and East Midlands scored 100 for five from 54 overs, Enid making a slightly painful 26 from 80 deliveries. A scorecard showing Enid in her fifties opening the batting for the President’s XI in the 1993 World Cup in England; and bowling.