Australian women's cricket team in England in 1937

Australian women's cricket team in England in 1937

	England	Australia
Dates	2 June 1937 – 28 July 1937
Captains	Molly Hide	Margaret Peden
Test series
Result	3-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Myrtle Maclagan (315)	Hazel Pritchard (306)
Most wickets	Molly Hide (14)	Peggy Antonio (19)

The Australian women's cricket team toured England from May to July 1937.^[1] The tour was the second series of the Women's Ashes.

They played 3 Tests against the English women's cricket team, with the series finishing 1-1, with one game drawn.^[2] The Australian women also played 16 tour games.^[3]

Test series

1st Test

12–15 June 1937
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
300 (119.5 overs) Kath Smith 88 Molly Hide 3/50 (22 overs)		204 (88.2 overs) Myrtle Maclagan 89 Peggy Antonio 6/51 (18.2 overs)
102 (56.1 overs) Nell McLarty 23 Molly Hide 2/10 (11 overs)		167 (88.2 overs) Betty Snowball 72 Kath Smith 4/50 (32 overs)

Australia won by 31 runs
County Ground, Northampton

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
No play on Sunday 13 June, which was a rest day

2nd Test

26–29 June 1937
Scorecard

England	v	Australia
222 (86 overs) Myrtle Maclagan 115 Peggy Antonio 3/34 (9 overs)		302 (117.2 overs) Hazel Pritchard 67 Molly Hide 3/38 (19 overs)
231 (97 overs) Muriel Lowe 57 Peggy Antonio 5/31 (14 overs)		126 (57.2 overs) Winnie George 34 Molly Hide 5/20 (12.2 overs)

England won by 25 runs
Stanley Park, Blackpool

England won the toss and elected to bat.
No play on Sunday 27 June, which was a rest day

3rd Test

10–13 July 1937
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
207/9 dec (101 overs) Patricia Holmes 70 Joan Davis 5/31 (13 overs)		308/9 dec (124.4 overs) Betty Snowball 99 Nell McLarty 3/29 (37 overs)
224 (93.4 overs) Hazel Pritchard 66 Joan Davis 3/55 (17.4 overs)		9/3 (3 overs) Betty Belton 8 Molly Flaherty 2/4 (2 overs)

Match drawn
The Oval, London

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
No play on Sunday 11 July, which was a rest day

References

^ "Australian Women's Cricket Team In England". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 June 1937. pp. 20S. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
^ "Australian Women tour of England, 1937". Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
^ "AUSTRALIA WOMEN IN ENGLAND 1937". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.

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