Myrtle Maclagan
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| Full name | Myrtle Ethel Maclagan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2 April 1911 Ambala, (now in Haryana) United Provinces, India |
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| Died | 11 March 1993 (aged 81) Surrey, England |
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| Bowling style | Right arm off spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut | 28 December 1934 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 31 July 1951 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 18 September 2008
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Myrtle Ethel Maclagan MBE (born 2 April 1911 in Ambala, United Provinces, India; died 11 March 1993 in Surrey, England) was an English cricketer.
She played in the first women's Test match in 1934, and was one of the best-known women cricketers of her day, famous for making high scores against the Australians. She scored the first Test century in women's cricket on 4 January 1935, when she made 119 for England against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground. The English men's team had lost the Ashes a few months earlier, and the Morning Post praised Maclagan's batting prowess with the quatrain:
After the 1934–35 tour to Australia and New Zealand, Maclagan also played against Australia in England in 1937. After the war, she returned to cricket, touring Australia and New Zealand again in 1948–49 and then appearing against Australia in England in 1951.
In 1966 she was awarded the MBE.
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