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2 unusual facts about History of women's cricket


History of women's cricket

The founding mother of women's cricket in Australia was the young Tasmanian, Lily Poulett-Harris, who captained the Oyster Cove team in the league she created in 1894.

The first Women's Cricket World Cup was held in England in 1973, funded in part by businessman Jack Hayward, and won by the hosts at Lords in front of Princess Anne.


Netta Rheinberg

She edited the magazine Women's Cricket, reported on women's cricket for Wisden for more than thirty years, and wrote a regular column for The Cricketer.

Phoenix Cricket Club

Phoenix Cricket Club is a Dublin-based club that currently fields five men's teams, one women's team, 8 schoolboy teams and a Tavern team.

The Mother of Us All

It chronicles the life of Susan B. Anthony, one of the major figures in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States.

Women's cricket

In 1958 the International Women's Cricket Council (IWCC) was formed to co-ordinate women's cricket around the world, taking over from the English Women's Cricket Association, which had been doing the same job in a de facto role since its creation 32 years earlier.


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