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The 2nd Women's Test match between Australia and England in Sydney in 1935.. The history of women's cricket can be traced back to a report in The Reading Mercury on 15 Aug 1745 and a match that took place between the villages of Bramley and Hambledon near Guildford in Surrey.
In India, cricket teams for women existed as early as the 1920s. Delhi Ladies Cricket Club beat the men's Marylebone Cricket Club in a half-day game on their 1926–27 tour of India, one of the only matches they lost on the tour. [10] [11] Because it was a women's team, the game is omitted from records of the tour. [12]
The SCG hosted the second Test match in women's cricket history. England became the first international women's cricket team to visit Australia, touring in the summer of 1934–35 to compete in a series against an Australian team captained by Margaret Peden. Three Test matches—the first-ever involving women—were played during the series ...
Ellyse Perry brings up the 200 mark of her 213* during the 2017–18 Women's Ashes Test, the highest individual test score by an Australian woman. This is a list of women's Test cricket records; that is, record team and individual performances in women's Test cricket.
The India women's national cricket team, also known as Women in Blue, represents India in women's international cricket. [8] It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, and is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Women's Test, Women's One Day International, and Women's Twenty20 International status.
The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup is the (sport's oldest world championship, with the first tournament held in England in 1973) quadrennial international championship of Women's One Day International Cricket tournament.
The Women's T20 World Cup is the biennial international championship for women's Twenty20 International cricket. [3] The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council , with the first edition having been held in England in 2009 . [ 4 ]
After the success of the Women's Cricket World Cup, the men's tournament took place two years later. [2] Seven teams competed in the inaugural tournament in England which took place over five and a half weeks. Each ODI match was 60 overs and every team played each other in a round-robin league format. [3]