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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. 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. The Australian women also played 16 tour games.

Test series

1st Test

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

2nd Test

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

3rd Test

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)

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

References

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

Further reading

• Stell, Marion K. (2022). The Bodyline Fix: How women saved cricket. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702265785.

External links

• First Test on English Soil – Talkin' About Women's Cricket description of day one of the First Test

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v t e Australia women's national cricket team
Players	Test cricketers ODI cricketers Twenty20 International cricketers
Tours	England 1937 New Zealand 1947–48 England 1951 New Zealand 1960–61 England 1963 New Zealand 1974–75 West Indies 1975–76 England 1976 India 1983–84 New Zealand 1985–86 Ireland 1987 England 1987 New Zealand 1987–88 New Zealand 1989–90 New Zealand 1993–94 New Zealand 1994–95 New Zealand 1996–97 England/Ireland 1998 New Zealand 1998–99 England/Ireland 2001 New Zealand 2001–02 New Zealand 2003–04 India 2004–05 England 2005 New Zealand 2007–08 New Zealand 2008–09 England 2009 New Zealand 2009–10 New Zealand 2011 India 2011–12 England 2013 England 2015 Ireland 2015 New Zealand 2015–16 New Zealand 2016–17 Sri Lanka 2016–17 India 2017–18 Malaysia 2018–19 England 2019 West Indies 2019–20 South Africa 2019–20 New Zealand 2020–21 India 2022–23 England 2023 Ireland 2023 India 2023–24 Bangladesh 2023–24
Home series	England 1934–35 England 1948–49 New Zealand 1956–57 England 1957–58 England 1968–69 New Zealand 1971–72 India 1976–77 New Zealand 1978–79 England 1984–85 New Zealand 1984–85 New Zealand 1986–87 New Zealand 1990–91 India 1990–91 England 1991–92 New Zealand 1992–93 New Zealand 1995–96 Pakistan 1996–97 New Zealand 1997–98 South Africa 1998–99 England 1999–2000 New Zealand 1999–2000 New Zealand 2001–02 England 2002–03 New Zealand 2003–04 New Zealand 2004–05 India 2005–06 New Zealand 2006–07 New Zealand 2007 England 2007–08 India 2008–09 New Zealand 2008–09 New Zealand 2009 New Zealand 2009–10 England 2010–11 New Zealand 2011 New Zealand 2011–12 New Zealand 2012–13 England 2013–14 Pakistan 2014 West Indies 2014–15 India 2015–16 New Zealand 2016–17 South Africa 2016–17 England 2017–18 New Zealand 2018–19 Sri Lanka 2019–20 New Zealand 2020–21 India 2021–22 England 2021–22 Pakistan 2022–23 West Indies 2023–24 South Africa 2023–24
Competitions	The Ashes 1934–35 1937 1948–49 1951 1957–58 1963 1968–69 1976 1984–85 1987 1991–92 1998 2001 2002–03 2005 2007–08 2009 2010–11 2013 2013–14 2015 2017–18 2019 2021–22 2023 Rose Bowl 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1989–90 1990–91 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2006–07 2007 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2015–16 2016–17 2018–19 2020–21 Tri-Nations 1991–92 1994–95 2017–18 2020 2022 Quadrangular Series 2002–03 2006–07 2011 (T20) 2011 (ODI)
Matches	World Cup Finals 1982 1988 1997 2000 2005 2013 2022 T20 World Cup Finals 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2023

v t e England women's cricket team
Players	Test cricketers ODI cricketers Twenty20 International cricketers
Related teams	Young England
Tours	Australia/New Zealand 1934–35 Australia/New Zealand 1948–49 Australia/New Zealand 1957–58 South Africa 1960–61 Australia/New Zealand 1968–69 Australia 1984–85 Ireland 1990 Australia/New Zealand 1991–92 India 1995–96 Australia/New Zealand 1999–2000 New Zealand 2000–01 India 2001–02 Australia 2002–03 South Africa 2003–04 South Africa 2004–05 India/Sri Lanka 2005–06 Australia/New Zealand 2007–08 West Indies 2009–10 India 2009–10 Sri Lanka 2010–11 Australia 2010–11 South Africa 2011–12 New Zealand 2011–12 West Indies 2013–14 Australia 2013–14 New Zealand 2014–15 South Africa 2015–16 Sri Lanka 2016–17 West Indies 2016–17 India 2017–18 Australia 2017–18 India 2018–19 Sri Lanka 2018–19 Pakistan 2019–20 New Zealand 2020–21 Pakistan 2021–22 Australia 2021–22 West Indies 2022–23 India 2023–24 New Zealand 2023–24 Ireland 2024 South Africa 2024–25
Home series	Australia 1937 Australia 1951 New Zealand 1954 Australia 1963 New Zealand 1966 Australia 1976 West Indies 1979 New Zealand 1984 India 1986 Australia 1987 New Zealand 1996 South Africa 1997 Australia 1998 India 1999 South Africa 2000 Australia 2001 India 2002 South Africa 2003 New Zealand 2004 Australia 2005 India 2006 South Africa 2007 New Zealand 2007 West Indies 2008 South Africa 2008 India 2008 Australia 2009 Ireland 2010 New Zealand 2010 Ireland 2012 India 2012 Pakistan 2012 West Indies 2012 Pakistan 2013 Australia 2013 India 2014 South Africa 2014 Australia 2015 Pakistan 2016 South Africa 2018 New Zealand 2018 West Indies 2019 Australia 2019 West Indies 2020 India 2021 New Zealand 2021 South Africa 2022 India 2022 Australia 2023 Sri Lanka 2023 Pakistan 2024 West Indies 2025
Competitions	The Ashes 1934–35 1937 1948–49 1951 1957–58 1963 1968–69 1976 1984–85 1987 1991–92 1998 2001 2002–03 2005 2007–08 2009 2010–11 2013 2013–14 2015 2017–18 2019 2021–22 2023 Europe 1989 1990 1991 1995 1999 2001 Tri-Nations 1991–92 2002 2013–14 2017–18 2018 2020 Quadrangular Series 2002–03 2006–07 2011 (T20) 2011 (ODI) Commonwealth Games 2022
Matches	World Cup finals 1982 1988 1993 2009 2017 2022 T20 World Cup finals 2018
See also	Record by opponent

• Women's cricket tours of England
• June 1937 sports events
• July 1937 sports events
• Australia women's national cricket team tours
• 1937 in women's cricket
• The Women's Ashes
• International cricket competitions from 1918–19 to 1945
• 1937 in Australian cricket
• 1937 in English cricket