WOMEN AND THE WILLOW
CRICKET FEVER IN ENGLAND. “Ladies v. Players” may be an attractive cricket fixture in the near future (says the Sunday Chrbnicle). This season women are taking to the game in real earnest, and more than 100 clubs and schools are now affiliated to the Women s Cricket Association. Some amazingly talented women players have been discovered. One is a brilliant *• googly ” bowler, who created a surprise by clean bowling three county batsmen during practice at the nets. Another successful woman player is Miss Jean Thomas, of the Gunnersbury Women’s Cricket Club. She is a vigorous left-hand batswoman, who has many big scores to her credit. “ Honestly, some of the women players I have seen are very little below county standard,” Strudwick. the famous Surrey wicketkeeper, said recently. With Sandham and Bale he runs a cricket school patronised by many keen women players. The women’s cricket movement has not made such quick progress in the north of England, but there is plenty of enthusiasm for it in some parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21384, 11 July 1931, Page 14
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