Rachael Heyhoe Flint

Heyhoe Flint helped organise the first Women's World Cup in 1973, two years before the first men's tournament, and captained England to win it. She made 179 at the Oval in 1976 to save a Test, and later campaigned successfully for women to be admitted as members of the MCC in 1999. Few players have changed both the sport's results and its institutions.