Amazon Quiz (March 28, 2022): Who won the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Trophy for being the ICC’s Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2021?
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Mithali Raj
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Answer: Mithali Raj
Rachael Heyhoe Flint will be remembered at Lord’s by a newly named gate, after the MCC committee overcame criticism from a part of its membership to reach an agreement on a permanent memorial to one of cricket’s most pioneering pioneers.
The gates will be commissioned and unveiled in the summer of 2022, replacing the current North Gate by Wellington Road, the most popular entrance to the ground due to its proximity to St John’s Wood tube station, and will serve as a fitting tribute to a campaigner whose fight for equal access to the sport was a central tenet of her life.
The news of what will be Lord’s first such tribute to a female cricketer comes on the 45th anniversary of the ground’s first women’s international, a one-day match between England, led by Heyhoe Flint, and Australia on August 4, 1976.
Baroness Heyhoe Flint, who died in 2017 at the age of 77, played 22 Tests for England between 1960 and 1979, when women’s cricket received little attention or money. She went on to become a key administrator for the women’s game, and she was instrumental in winning England’s women their first batch of ECB central contracts in 2014. In her honour, the ECB women’s regional competition will be held in 2020.
Her most major contribution to the sport, however, came in 1973, when she created and established the first Cricket World Cup – a women’s event that took place two years before the first men’s tournament. She went on to collect the trophy herself after England defeated Australia in the final, which was staged at Edgbaston because women were still not allowed to play at Lord’s at the time.
Heyhoe Flint successfully petitioned MCC to eliminate its centuries-old barring of women from membership, and the following year she became one of the club’s first ten female members to be granted honorary life membership. She was honoured with a painting at Lord’s Pavilion in 2010, which stood over the entrance to the Long Room as England’s women won the World Cup there a few months after her death in 2017.
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