Betty Snowball

Some of the younger members are inclined to prop at the well-pitched leg spinner.

But the veterans, Myrtle, and she's talking about the England team here, Myrtle McLagan, Molly Hyde, and Betty Snowball, all with previous test experience in their string bags, deal with this type of bowling in workmanlike style.

While the bowling might not be as strong as the batting, the girls have good style and there is nothing lollipop about it.

The fielding is not to be scoffed at.

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... to test matches and a, and really quite well-attended matches and, and getting a lot of press coverage for it, and this is where we come onto the pioneers, don't we? People like Margery Pollard and, you know, um, Myrtle Maclagan, and of course the one closest to my heart, Betty Snowball.

Um, and that, that sort of then becomes something, doesn't it, the pre-war?

The big thing that the WCA do is that they say, "We, we believe that women's cricket is worthy of a public audience." So in the 19th century you get a lot of girls, um, kind of public schools and some of the colleges at women's universities, um, at Oxford and, and the University of London, um, playing women's cricket, but they're doing it kind of behind closed doors.