- Netta Rheinberg
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Netta Rheinberg MBE (24 October 1911 at Willesden, Middlesex – 18 June 2006) played for the English women's cricket team in a single Test, but was a notable figure in the women's game as an administrator and journalist. Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, the former England captain, said of her work as an administrator, "Netta was an action girl. We had very few people then, and she galvanised activity, partly just by having a great personality and a sense of humour."
She played her cricket mostly for Gunnersbury and Middlesex, as a batsman and slip fielder. Her one Test came on England's tour of Australia in 1948-9. She was the team's manager, and had to play in the match because of injuries to other players. She made a "pair".[1]
She was secretary of the Women's Cricket Association in 1945 and from 1948 to 1958. She was also membership secretary and vice-chairman of the Cricket Society.
She edited the magazine Women's Cricket, reported on women's cricket for Wisden for more than thirty years, and wrote a regular column for The Cricketer. With Heyhoe-Flint as co-author, she wrote a history of the women's game.[2]
In 1999 she was one of the first ten women to be awarded honorary membership of MCC.[3]
Notes
- ^ Scorecard
- ^ Fair Play - the story of women's cricket, Angus & Robertson, 1976, ISBN 978-0207956980.
- ^ MCC delivers first 10 maidens (BBC News, 16 March 1999)
References
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905625-02-4, 1568-9: Obituary
- Cricinfo profile
- Cricinfo obituary
Categories:- English women cricketers
- England women Test cricketers
- Cricket historians and writers
- Cricket administrators
- Women's cricket umpires
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- 1911 births
- 2006 deaths
- People educated at South Hampstead High School
- English cricket biography, 20th century births stubs
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