Enid Bakewell: Coalminer’s Daughter

Download or read book Enid Bakewell: Coalminer’s Daughter written by Simon Sweetman and published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enid Bakewell, one of England’s most successful and distinguished women cricketers, was the first woman player to have an article about her in Wisden, in 1970, after an outstanding tour of Australasia. She is now the first female subject in the ACS Lives in Cricket series. Simon Sweetman takes us through Enid’s playing career as an all-rounder and off the field as teacher and coach; and daughter, wife and mother. Articulate, approachable, Enid is a woman rooted in Nottinghamshire who has made friends across the world. She and her generation were true pioneers: when playing for the first time at Lord’s, they didn’t know if women would be allowed into the changing rooms.