Lives in Cricket No 49 - Enid Bakewell

50 then took six for 13. On June 28 and 29, 1969 the club took part in a short form competition with other local clubs, in which each side apparently batted for 30 minutes. Enid, remarkably, carried her bat through all four games: the scores: Nottingham 51 for three (Enid 16 not out), Edgbaston 43 for six (Enid four for 8); Wolverhampton 51, Nottingham 52 for none (Enid 19 not out); Casuals 23, Nottingham 103 for two (Enid 36 not out); Oxford 45 for four, Nottingham 70 for one (Enid 34 not out); Then on August 16, 1969 in what was definitely a county game, Enid scored 47 out of 113 for five, then took two for five as Kath Sharman took six for 10 and bowled Leicestershire out for 65. The paper also mentioned that Notts (or Nottingham) were looking to play a number of games against men’s sides. By the end of the season Enid was pregnant again and in January “I got to name Lynne, who was born 17th January, 1970. Lynne was named after Lynne Thomas (Colin had named Lorna after Lorna Doone) and had she been a boy she would have been Robin (as in Batman and Robin).’ The year 1970 was to be hard. There are a couple of games of cricket we know about. In June she played for North Midlands against Middlesex, making 75 out of a total of 134 (an opening stand of 59 with B Clay, who was then run out and disappears from available scores). Middlesex ended on 124 for nine – Enid, who of course was the captain, bowled only six overs for ten runs. On June 21 she played for England Select Women against England Women. England scored 161 for six declared, with Enid bowling only two overs for 13 and then she was out for a duck as England Select were all out 121. In July there was a two day match at Hastings, England Women against the Rest. The Rest made 146 for four declared (Enid 8-3-20-1) and 140 for three declared (Enid 8-3-23-1), England 125 for seven declared (Enid nought) and 123 for 6 (Enid nought not out coming in at number eight). According to Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Enid had to drop down the order in this match because Lynne had not got her wind up after lunch and had to be burped before Enid could get on with batting. But Enid had other things to worry about . ‘I think that it was a difficult time as my mum was ill with breast cancer and died in August. Lynne was only seven months old, and. I felt really guilty as I was preoccupied with the two girls and did not realise how ill mum was - she was scared of hospital and because her generation had had to pay a bill for seeing a doctor. She always said that the doctor would tell her to rest and she could not do that so no point going to see him. She showed me life insurance policies but I did not realise why. I eventually got a doctor to come to see her but it was too late. It had not helped that Enid from 1969