Lives in Cricket No 49 - Enid Bakewell

81 1980s game. Also, she had an unhappy home background where Wendy had a solid happy family and much common sense. All these things can matter. As a youngster I was always out playing as dad worked nights, so slept during the day when not on his allotment, so I was encouraged to play out. There were few cars in the village so I could cycle and we had a square about a quarter mile to run round it so I used this to train. When not training or playing football or cricket I used to play for hours hitting tennis balls against dad’s garage wall until I had lost them in the long grass on the other side of the garage. Unfortunately I expected everyone to be equally fit. Lynne Thomas was because she played hockey for Wales.”