Lives in Cricket No 49 - Enid Bakewell

78 1982 World Cup She might also have been tempted by the feeling that her international career was over – she was 41. Heyhoe Flint was older but had still looked England’s best batsman while Enid had bowled reasonably well but had not really been used as a batsman. Enid says: Rachael being dismissed from the captaincy probably meant that I finished playing for England after 1982. Under the new captain I batted lower down the order and had nightmares about how I could have bowled the over from which Marie Cornish hit the winning run in World Cup 1982.