Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

155 Northern Ireland, women’s cricket in, 41 Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, 33 Trent Bridge, 14, 34 nursing, 12-15; Australian Army Nursing Service, 15 and the First World War, 12, 13 , 15 , 40, 115, 142 and the Second World War, 137, 140 Old Trafford, 14, 26, 34 Olympics, 31; and Paralympic Games, London (2012), 4 Soviet Games, 89 Women’s Olympic Games, 31 Original English Lady Cricketers, 26, 27 , 34, 35, 105-6 Oval, The, 14, 34, 35, 39, 44, 125-27, 128 , 146 Pakistan, women’s cricket in, 41 Pankhurst, Emmeline, 18, 94 Peek Frean, 84, 89 Penton, Brian, 97 Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline, 99 physical education, 24, 30, 99, 110-111, 116-17, 120, 130-31, 144; physical training mistresses, 76, 84, 99-112, 117-18, 131, 142 physical training colleges, 25-26, 99-100 Pollard, Marjorie, 29, 33, 43, 44-45, 61, 66-69, 71, 78-79, 103 , 114-6, 118, 121, 124-26, 137, 140-41, 144, 148; death, 146; feminism, 100-103, 105-7 and the Women’s Team Games Board, 132-34 professionalism, 5, 26, 146-48 and men’s sport, 72, 74-75, 79 and the WCA, 105-7 Ranjitsinhji, Kumar, 71 Rathbone, Eleanor, 102 Rheinberg, Netta, 107 Rhondda, Lady Margaret, 98-99, 102-3 Risdale (Baldwin), Lucy, 22, 38 rounders, 30, 138 rowing, 28, 31, 131; Women’s Amateur Rowing Association, 28 Rowntree, Joseph, 116 Rowntree’s, 28, 82, 84-85, 87-89 rugby, 79, 94, 101 144 Scharlieb, Mary, 53, 54 , 116, 139 school cricket (girls), 11, 16, 21, 24-25, 28, 34, 40-45, 53, 75-78, 99-100, 111- 112, 115, 117, 120-22, 125-26, 134, 138, 145; Bedales School, 98, 100 Brighouse Girls’ Secondary School, 75 Chantry School, 24 Friends’ School, The, 24-5, 143-44 Gravesend County School for Girls, 24, 77, 117, 120, 122 Harrogate College, 20 Roedean School, 12, 24-25, 34, 77, 120, 131 Tonbridge County School for Girls, 24, 77, 120 Sacred Heart School (Roehampton), 24 St Leonards School (St Andrew’s), 24, 98, 100, 120 St Mary’s School (Wantage), 24 St Paul’s Girls’ School (Hammersmith), 12, 24, 120-21, 138 Wycombe Abbey School, 24, 77, 111 Scotland, women’s cricket in, 24, 44, 79, 98, 100, 120 Second World War, 17, 20-22, 34, 59; VE Day, 143-44 women’s experiences in, 137-38, 140-41 Selincourt, Hugh de, 57-58 Shrubsole, Anya, 147 Sim, Winifred, 122 Six Point Group, 98, 102; Time and Tide , 98, 103 see also Helen Archdale, Margaret Rhondda Smethwick Cricket Club, 94 Snowball, Betty, 38, 39 , 126 Soman, Wilhelmina, 71 South Africa, women’s cricket in, 5, 41, 138 Spondon Cricket Club, 57 Sri Lanka, women’s cricket in, 41 stoolball, 28 suffrage, 18, 94-100, 102 swimming, 11, 28, 31, 82, 88, 131, 141; bathing, 31, 60 water polo, 84 Sydney, 36, 50; Sydney Cricket Ground, 38 table tennis, 87, 143 Taylor, Mary, 36, 38 , 39 , 118, 119 tennis, 7, 11, 31, 42, 49, 60, 62, 71, 82, 87, 91, 104, 114, 111, 125, 127, 131- 32, 141, 143-144 Thompson, Edith, 100 Threlfall-Sykes, Judy, 36 Timperley, Frank, 34, 75 Troup, Walter, 47 Twenty20 (Women’s), 5, 147 , 148 United States of America, cricket in, 41 university/college cricket (women’s), 21-24, 34, 40, 42, f.46, 75-76, 138; Bedford College, 24-25, 138 Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 24 Girton College, University of Cambridge, 12, 23, 34 Index