Rachael Heyhoe Flint
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Full name | Rachael Heyhoe Flint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Wolverhampton, England | 11 June 1939|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 18 January 2017 | (aged 77)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 51) | 2 December 1960 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 1 July 1979 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 4) | 23 June 1973 v International XI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 7 February 1982 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1963–1985 | West Midlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1976–1982 | West | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 7 March 2021 |
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint,
She also played as
According to
Early life
Rachael Heyhoe was born in Wolverhampton. Her parents Roma Crocker and Geoffrey Heyhoe were teachers of physical education who met at a college in Denmark. They both taught in Wolverhampton.
She was educated at
Cricket career
Heyhoe Flint was chiefly a right-handed
She hit the first
In 1970 she was one of those who set up a fund to pay for police protection for the planned South African tour. and she was one of the many who argued that sport and politics should be kept separate. Unequivocally in her 1978 autobiography she said "Who are we... to tell the South Africans how to run their country?" It was, she said, "... their country, and hardly the place of any English people to criticise". This was also the position of the British Women's Cricket Association in which she played a leading part.[citation needed]
She was captain of the first England women's team to play at
She primarily played domestic cricket for West Midlands, whilst also making appearances for West of England, East Midlands, Warwickshire and various composite XIs.[9]
Other sports
She played as
She served on the board of directors of
Outside sport
She was a teacher of physical education from 1960 to 1963, at Wolverhampton Municipal Grammar School and then Northicote School also in Wolverhampton. She then became a journalist with the Wolverhampton Chronicle. She was a sports writer on a freelance basis for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. She also worked as a broadcaster, and in 1973 she was appointed TV's first woman sports presenter with ITV's World of Sport. After retiring from cricket, she continued to work as a journalist and broadcaster and also became an award-winning after-dinner speaker, businesswoman and board director.
In 1973, she was selected by the Guild of Professional Toastmasters as the Best After Dinner Speaker.
She was appointed
She was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands in 1997,
She was appointed
She became one of the first female directors of the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2010.[19][20][21]
On 19 November 2010, it was announced that she was to be ennobled to sit in the House of Lords as a Conservative Party peer.[22] "I was completely taken by surprise when I took the call from the Prime Minister in September", Heyhoe Flint said. "Obviously I am really thrilled at my appointment but still very humbled at the thought of joining such a historic institution ... My background in sport, journalism, charity and community work will I hope stand me in good stead, and I hope I can make a positive contribution as a working peer. I will certainly look forward to the commute from one Lord's to another Lords."[23] She was subsequently invested as a life peer on 21 January 2011 taking the title Baroness Heyhoe Flint, of Wolverhampton in the County of West Midlands.[24] The formal designation of her title without a hyphen broke a rule that peerage titles could only have one word, previously observed by the likes of Lord Lloyd-George, Lord Alanbrooke, Lord Chuter-Ede and Lord Lloyd-Webber.[25]
In April 2011, Heyhoe Flint was granted the freedom of Wolverhampton.[26]
In 2021, the MCC announced it would name a gate at Lords after Rachael Heyhoe Flint, and this was formally opened, and a plaque to her unveiled, by her son Ben, along with her protégée Clare Connor, the MCC president, during the August 2022 test match there against South Africa.
Personal life
On 1 November 1971, Rachael Heyhoe married
Their son Ben (born 1974) also played cricket. He emigrated to Singapore in 2001 where he runs businesses related to sports and entertainment. She was also stepmother to Derrick Flint's children: Simon, Hazel and Rowan Flint.[27]
Death
Her death, after a short illness, was announced by
She was remembered during the in memoriam at the 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards.
In memory of Heyhoe Flint, in 2017 the International Cricket Council named their ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year accolade, the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award.[30] In 2020, the women's domestic 50-over competition was named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.[31]
Bibliography
With
See also
- List of residents of Wolverhampton
References
- ^ "Rachael Heyhoe Flint receives her OBE". Birmingham Post. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ Berry, Scyld (18 January 2017). "Cricket mourns death of Baroness Rachael Heyhoe Flint – the WG Grace of women's game". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 20 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
- ^ a b Duggan, Emily (10 August 2013). "Rachael Heyhoe Flint: Still knocking them for six". Independent. Archived from the original on 19 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "A cricketer who changed the game". ESPNcricinfo. 11 May 2016. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ The tireless champion of women's cricket liberation Archived 22 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine, ESPNcricinfo, 19 January 2017
- ^ Women's World Cup, 21st Match: England Women v Australia Women at Birmingham, 28 July 1973 Archived 31 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine, ESPNcricinfo
- ^ "Baroness Heyhoe Flint MBE DL". WomenSpeakers. Archived from the original on 21 March 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
- ^ "Statsguru: Women's One-Day Internationals, Batting records". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ "Player Profile: Rachael Heyhoe Flint". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- ^ Ruscoe, Sybil (26 October 2004). "Heyhoe Flint finds another boundary for MCC at Lord's". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ Biography from 2002 Archived 25 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine on her honorary doctorate from University of Bradford
- ^ "No. 45678". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1972. p. 6268.
- ^ "Baroness Heyhoe Flint". The Times. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- ^ "Rachael Heyhoe Flint dies aged 77". BBC News. 18 January 2017. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ "DLs on Supplemental List". wmlieutenancy.org. Archived from the original on 15 September 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ Radley and Heyhoe-Flint honoured Archived 17 July 2012 at archive.today, ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 December 2007
- ^ "No. 58557". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2007. p. 10.
- ^ BBC report on ICC awards, BBC. Retrieved 6 October 2010
- ^ Rachael Heyhoe Flint, trailblazer for women’s sport, dies aged 77 Archived 22 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian
- ^ "Tributes pour in for Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, former England women's captain". The Independent. 18 January 2017. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ^ "Rachael Heyhoe Flint, England women's cricket captain – obituary". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 23 January 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ^ Press release Latest peerages announced Archived 29 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Downing Street, Downing Street Formal Announcement 19 November 2010
- ^ "Rachael Heyhoe Flint appointed to House of Lords | Marylebone Cricket Club". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- ^ "No. 59681". The London Gazette. 26 January 2011. p. 1261.
- ISBN 9781526783721. pp. 292-3
- ^ "Freedom of Wolverhampton award for Rachael Heyhoe-Flint". BBC News. 20 April 2011. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ Rachael Heyhoe Flint Archived 9 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine; CricketArchive.com. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- Lord's. 18 January 2017. Archivedfrom the original on 19 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Women's pioneer Heyhoe-Flint dies aged 77". ESPNcricinfo. 18 January 2017. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Perry clinches inaugural Rachael Heyhoe Flint award for ICC Women's cricketer of the year" (Press release). 21 December 2017. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ "Women's cricket: Domestic 50-over competition named Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy". BBC Sport. 11 August 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
External links
- Rachael Heyhoe Flint at ESPNcricinfo
- MCC delivers first 10 maidens (BBC News, 16 March 1999)
- July 1969 appearance as the 'castaway' on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs