An article contributed by Mr David Lausen.
The history of women’s cricket goes back at least three hundred years and it is certainly not a story of steady progression. There were times when there were many barriers to women and girls playing, claims that women playing cricket was either unnatural or unhealthy, and open resentment that women were transgressing into the male ‘domain’. The following is my take on the changes over three hundred years. One of my grandmothers played the game in 1890s and one of my daughters played from 2000 to 2013.
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