Lives in Cricket No 49 - Enid Bakewell

37 game. But in reality it is just that fortuitously more scores from that year have survived, at least in summary: but it gives a chance to see how many games Enid might play in a full season. Three men’s games saw Enid have some success with the ball. On April 29, she took 3 for 30 against Alrewas, and at the end of May 3 for 27 against Streetley to bowl them out for 84, but R Heyhoe’s XI could manage only 82 in reply. On 2 July Dudley Kingswinford scored 176 for seven, Enid taking four for 44, but R Heyhoe’s XI managed only 152 for nine. There are three games for the Nottingham club (the results must have been sent in by the opposition), all won. Enid would have played several more games for the club in the course of a season, but no scores survive. May 20: Wolverhampton 96 for six (Enid two for 18), Nottingham 97 for six (Enid 16). July 15: Wolverhampton 73 (Enid six for 26), Nottingham 77 for six (Enid 46 not out). August 26: Leicester 106 for four declared (Enid two for 36), Nottingham 107 for one (Enid 53 not out in 75 minutes). There is an advertisement for a match on Sunday 4 June match between the Lord’s Taverners and an England Ladies XI, but if it happened the score is lost. Other games in the season show Enid in good form with both bat and ball June 14: Surrey 198 (Enid 8-1-29-4), R Heyhoe’s XI 199 for six (Enid 58). June 17: North 156 for nine declared, Midlands 121 for eight (Enid 34). July 1: Midlands 170 for seven declared (Enid 85), East (Enid five for 38). July 16: Surrey 141 for nine declared (Enid 11-1-28-1), JP Bragger’s XI 128 for seven (Enid 82): Enid was seventh out. Surrey apparently bowled 43 overs in 103 minutes. There were two trial matches: July 27: Possibles 135 for five (Enid 7-2-19-0), Probables (then it rained). August 12: Probables 196 for two declared (Enid 28), Possibles 129 for eight (Enid 20-3-50-4). And one more game against men: August 28: Walsall Wood 205 for five declared (Enid 11-1-64-4), Audrey Disbury’s XI 175 for seven (Enid run out at 74-2). At the end of 1967 the WCA magazine folded. From 1968 there was the shorter cyclostyled Bulletin. As some compensation, the Cricketer ‘guaranteed’ regular coverage of the women’s game. It was to provide a fairly regular column, but no scores. During the winter of 1967-68 Enid was playing for the Crimson Ramblers Hockey Club as they went through the season unbeaten and won the Notts Club Championship. 11 She also played regularly for the county and once for the Midlands. 11 Nottinghamshire Guardian, April 13, 1968 After Dartford