WOMEN CRICKETERS 140 YEARS AGO
Cricket as a game for women is not as new an idea as many think, as the following extract from a Sussex newspaper of June 17, 1793, may be held to prove: "Last Monday a match of cricket was played on Bury Common, in this county, by_ females; the married women of the parish against the maidens, which was won by the former, whose notches at the conclusion of the game outnumbered those which the maids had got by 80. So famous are the Bury women at a cricket match that they offer to play with any eleven in any village in the county for any sum."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 26 March 1930, Page 2
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112WOMEN CRICKETERS 140 YEARS AGO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 26 March 1930, Page 2
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