Women's cricket
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Women's cricket is the form of the team sport of cricket that is played by women.
The first recorded Women`s Cricket match was reported in the The Reading Mercury on July 26 1745 and took place between the towns of Bramley and Hambleton near Guildford in Surrey. The Mercury reported:
- "The greatest cricket match that was played in this part of England was on Friday, the 26th of last month, on Gosden Common, near Guildford, between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white. The Bramley maids had blue ribbons and the Hambledon maids red ribbons on their heads. The Bramley girls got 119 notches and the Hambledon girls 127. There was of bothe sexes the greatest number that ever was seen on such an occasion. The girls bowled, batted, ran and catches as well as most men could do in that game." [1]
The first women's cricket club was formed in 1887 at Nun Appleton in Yorkshire and named the White Heather Club. In 1890 a team known as the Original English Lady Cricketers, toured England, playing in exhibition matches to large crowds. [2] In 1926 the Women's Cricket Association was founded and the first overseas tour was made to Australia and New Zealand in 1934-35 which included the first Test match between England and Australia in December 1934.
In Australia, the Victoria Women’s Cricket Association was founded in 1905 and the Australian Women's Cricket Association in 1931.
In 1958 the International Women's Cricket Council was formed to coordinate women's cricket which was now being played regularly in Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand, the West Indies, Denmark and Holland. In 1960-61 England toured South Africa and in 1976 the first women's Test was held at Lord's between England and Australia. In 1979 the first Women's Cricket World Cup was held in England, and won by the hosts.
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Women's Test cricket
- Main article: Women's Test cricket
Women's Test cricket has been played since 1933/4. Current international women's cricket teams include nine Test teams, as follows:
Note that Bangladesh and Zimbabwe do not play women's Test cricket although they do have men's teams, and that Ireland is a Test nation in women's cricket but not in the men's game.
Women's ODI cricket
- Main article: Women's one-day international cricket
Image:Hutchens-baseball.jpg Women's One-day Internationals have been played since 1973. The first Women's Cricket World Cup competition was held in 1973, two years before the first men's Cricket World Cup. Four women's cricket teams field one-day international sides but do not play Test cricket:
There are also four One-day International teams which no longer field sides at this level:
Women cricketers
- Main article: List of women cricketers
Famous woman cricketers include:
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| International: Test cricket | One-day cricket | Twenty20 | Indoor cricket | Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes | Women's cricket | |
| Other types: French cricket | Beach cricket | First-class cricket | List A cricket | Club cricket | Kwik cricket | Catchy Shubby Cricket | Blind cricket | Kilikiti | Short form cricket |
