Rachael Heyhoe-Flint

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Personal information
Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
England
Full name	Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Born	11 June 1939 (1939-06-11) (age 69)
	Wolverhampton, England
Role	Batsman
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm leg spin
International information
Test debut (cap 51)	2 December 1960: v South Africa
Last Test	1 July 1979: v West Indies
ODI debut (cap ?)	23 June 1973: v International XI
Last ODI	7 February 1982: v Australia
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1980 – 1982	West Midlands Women
Career statistics
	Tests	ODI
Matches	22	23
Runs scored	1594	643
Batting average	45.54	58.45
100s/50s	3/10	1/4
Top score	179	114

Balls bowled	402	18
Wickets	3	1
Bowling average	68.00	20.00
5 wickets in innings	–	–
10 wickets in match	–	–
Best bowling	1/3	1/13
Catches/stumpings	13/–	6/–
As of 29 December 2007 Source: Cricinfo

Rachael Heyhoe-Flint OBE (born 11 June 1939, in Wolverhampton) is probably the best known female cricketer in England. She was a member of the English women's cricket team from 1960 to 1982. She was captain of England from 1966 to 1978, and was unbeaten in six Test series. She was captain when England won the inaugural Women's Cricket World Cup, held in England in 1973.

Heyhoe-Flint was chiefly a batsman. She played in 22 Women's Test cricket matches, with a batting average of 45.54 in 38 innings. She scored three Test centuries, including her highest score of 179, a world record when she scored it against Australia at the Oval in 1976, earning a draw to save the series by batting for more than 8½ hours. She was captain of the first England women's team to play at Lord's in the 1976 Women's Ashes series. She also hit the first six in a women's Test match in 1963, also at the Oval against Australia. After being replaced as England captain in 1978, she played her last Test match in the 1979 series against West Indies, but went on to play in the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup.

Since retiring from cricket, Heyhoe-Flint has been a cricket journalist and broadcaster, and after-dinner speaker. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1972, and was one of the first ten women admitted to the MCC in 1999, as an honorary life member. In 2004, she was the first woman elected to the full committee of the MCC. Outside cricket, she played as goalkeeper for the England national field hockey team in 1964. She has been a director of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. since 1997. She has been President of the Lady Taverners since 2001. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.^[1]

With Netta Rheinberg, she co-authored a history of women's cricket: Fair Play - the story of women's cricket, Angus & Robertson, 1976, ISBN 978-0207956980.

She was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School.