MCC informed to ‘stop being silly’ after resistance to Rachel Heyhoe Flint memorial

Marylebone Cricket Club has confronted criticism from main cricketers, together with Heather Knight, the present England ladies’s group captain, and Michael Vaughan, a former England males’s group captain, after reviews of resistance from sections of the male-dominated membership in opposition to a proposal to erect a memorial to Rachael Heyhoe Flint, a luminary of girls’s cricket, at Lord’s.
Baroness Heyhoe Flint, who died in 2017 on the age of 77, performed 22 Tests for England between 1960 and 1979. In 1973, she devised and established the primary Cricket World Cup – a ladies’s occasion that preceded the primary males’s match by two years.
“I think it would be misguided to erect a statue,” MCC member and creator Mark Peel was quoted as saying in The Times. “It would put everything out of proportion. To compare like with like – men’s and women’s cricket – is plain wrong,” he mentioned.
“Come on MCC move with the times,” Heather Knight wrote on Twitter. “Women’s cricket in England owes everything to Rachael and she invented the World Cup, without even mentioning her playing career #GetRachaelAStatue.”

Come on MCC transfer with the occasions. Women’s cricket in England owes all the pieces to Rachael and he or she invented the World Cup, with out even mentioning her taking part in profession #GetRachaelAStatue https://t.co/riQrCzmJ8t
— Heather Knight (@Heatherknight55) May 6, 2021

I’m not anybody to resolve who will get a statue or not .. past my pay grade .. however I do know when persons are trailblazers & Rachel Heyhoe Flint is definitely a type of .. Stop playing around MCC members and let the statue occur .. 👍👍 #OnOn
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) May 6, 2021

Rachel Heyhoe-Flint ought to have a statue at Lord’s. She was ladies’s cricket. The greatest participant, the very best promoter and the inventor of the cricket World Cup. WG Grace performed the sport. RHF constructed and grew it. Both legends in numerous methods. https://t.co/d5cYBwKwVB
— Jarrod Kimber (@ajarrodkimber) May 6, 2021