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Women's Cricket Association Founded — England, October 1926

Women's Cricket Association

1926-10-04

On 4 October 1926, at a women's cricket week at Colwall in the Malvern Hills, 70 players agreed to form the Women's Cricket Association — the first national governing body for women's cricket in any country. Within nine years the WCA had organised the first women's Test, between England and Australia at Brisbane in December 1934.

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Marjorie Pollard — Founder of English Women's Cricket Journalism

Pollard / Women's cricket in England

1925-08-15

Through the 1920s Marjorie Pollard was the leading all-rounder in English women's cricket and the founding journalist of the women's game. Her playing career, her organisation of the 1926 Colwall cricket week, and her editorship of Women's Cricket magazine from 1930 onward made her the central figure in the institutional history of women's cricket in England.

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