Fancy That — Cricketer
It’s the Women’s World Cup Final at Lord’s today, so to mark the occasion, here’s a fitting feature from Privilege Club 15. I’m not convinced that this model has ever picked up a cricket bat in her life before this shoot though. At Little Snoreton-on-the-Mire in the Cotswold heartlands they take their cricket seriously. When the deliciously pretty Miss Melinda Dewsbury-Saint took it into her head to join the austere men-only club as a playing member, it threw the selection panel into a frenzy of debate. Lawyers were consulted, and the legal reading was that, on grounds of her sex alone, Miss Dewsbury-Saint could not be excluded. The only reasons the Club could legitimately use for turning her down — as, to a man, they wished to do (please note here that the younger, playing members of the club had not been consulted) — was if she were to prove unsuitable in some other way. Well, on the grounds of breeding and background...