Women's cricket
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Women's cricket is the form of the team sport of cricket that is played by women.
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[edit] History
The first recorded Women's cricket match was reported in The Reading Mercury on 26 July 1745 and took place between the villages of Bramley and Hambledon 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]
Originally, cricket deliveries were bowled underarm. Legend has it that roundarm bowling action was pioneered by Christina Willes in the early 1800s, to avoid becoming ensnared in her skirts.
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] The Women's Cricket Association was founded in 1926, and the first overseas tour was made to Australia and New Zealand in 1934-35 which included the first Women's 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.
The International Women's Cricket Council was formed in 1958 to coordinate women's cricket which was now being played regularly in Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, the West Indies, Denmark and the Netherlands. England toured South Africa in 1960-61, and the first Women's Cricket World Cup was held in England in 1973, won by the hosts.
Lord's cricket ground staged its first women's Test match in 1979, between England and Australia.
In 2005, after the eighth Women's World Cup, the International Women’s Cricket Council was officially integrated under the umbrella of the International Cricket Council, and an ICC Women’s Cricket Committee was formed to consider all matters relating to women’s cricket. [3]
[edit] Women's Test cricket
Women's Test cricket has been played since December 1934. Current international women's cricket teams include ten 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 and the Netherlands are Test nations in women's cricket but not in the men's game.
[edit] Women's ODI cricket
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. The following women's cricket teams have fielded one-day international sides but do not play Test cricket:
The following sides competed in the first women's world cup, but no longer field sides at this level.
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| International: Test cricket | One-day cricket | Twenty20 | Indoor cricket | Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes | Women's cricket | |
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