Lives in Cricket No 49 - Enid Bakewell

18 Youth ‘ Radio Times used to print a little picture of all the fielding places so I learned those from there’. And she filled a school-type desk at home with newspaper cuttings about cricket, mainly of the great Surrey team of the 1950s. The school didn’t have a cricket team but was lucky in Mr Moody, ‘who let us play hockey’ – many similarities then, as playing at left back, as Enid did, a pass to the right wing in hockey is like a cover drive. With the help of Mr Albon’s coaching Enid passed the eleven plus and was off to grammar school.