Women's cricket

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The earliest known reference to women playing cricket is a report in the Reading Mercury on Friday, 26 July 1745 when a match took place near Guildford, Surrey. There were infrequent mentions over the next hundred years until Victorian times when public matches seemingly died out and women's cricket became a country house pastime, played in private.[1]

Notes

  1. Rheinberg, Netta. Barclay's World of Cricket, page 693.

Bibliography

  • Swanton, E. W. (editor): Barclays World of Cricket, 3rd edition. Willow Books (1986).