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Test cricket

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Fast bowling

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 right-handed batsman, McNaughton made three Test appearances for her country. She was the first South African woman to take a five-wicket haul in a Test match.

Career

Part of the Southern Transvaal women's cricket team, McNaughton made her first appearance of the English tour in 1960–61 for her club side. Batting at number five, she scored 15 runs in 22 minutes. In the English innings, she only bowled four overs, taking no wickets and conceding 22 runs.

Playing in South Africa's first Test match she made a pair, becoming only the second woman, after England's player/manager Netta Rheinberg

Netta Rheinberg

Netta Rheinberg MBE 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...

 in 1949, to do so on debut. She also remained wicket-less in the match, bowling a total of nine overs. She didn't play in the second Test, and scored one run in each of her two innings for South African XI women against England during a tour match.

Back in the team for the third Test at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead

Sahara Stadium Kingsmead

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, Durban

Durban

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, McNaughton claimed six of the eight English wickets to fall in their first-innings, making her the first South African woman to take a five-wicket haul in Test cricket. In spite of her achievement, England won the match by eight wickets. In the final Test of the series, she scored her highest total in Test cricket, hitting 28 runs to help give her team a first-innings lead, and support Yvonne van Mentz

Yvonne van Mentz

Yvonne van Mentz is a former South African cricketer. She scored South Africa's first century in Women's Test cricket, with an unbeaten 105 against England in the fourth Test played during the 1960/61 season. An all-rounder, she played four Test matches for South Africa, taking eight wickets and...

 as she closed in on her century

Century (cricket)

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