Anne Palmer (cricketer)

Anne Palmer (cricketer)

Anne Palmer is an international cricketer who played 3 matches for the Australia national women's cricket team in the inaugural series against the England women's cricket team in the 1934/35 season.

She formed a formidable spin partnership with Peggy Antonio, the "Girl Grimmett", taking ten wickets at 12 apiece and scoring 92 runs at 15.33. She had practiced with Antonio at a local school in her youth and the pair took 22 of the 35 wickets to fall in the rubber. A right-handed batsman she scored 92 runs in her three tests, with a best of 39, at 15.33. Unfortunately she was unable to raise the money necessary to tour England with the team in 1937 and never played test cricket again.

After winning a scholarship to continue her education she became Victoria's first uniformed policewoman. At the age of 89, was presented with a 'baggy green' Australia cap and badge in a ceremony in 2004 at the offices of Cricket Australia in Melbourne.

Interviewed after the ceremony she recalled how some of her team mates slept on luggage racks as they traveled by train around the country:

References

* [http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/53552.html Cricinfo Profile]
* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/11/11038/11038.html Cricket Archive Statistics]
* [http://www.cricket.com.au/_content/document/INSIGHT_Nov_2004.pdf Article on Anne Palmer]


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