Joy Irwin is a former Natal and South Africa cricketer. She played in South Africa's first three Test matches

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

, scoring 40 runs in her six innings.

Irwin, a record-breaking opening batsman

Batting order (cricket)

In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batsmen play through their team's innings, there always being two batsmen taking part at any one time...

 for Natal, was selected to play for South Africa women against the touring English women in 1960–61. In the first tour match, playing for South African XI Women, Irwin scored 5 & 34 opening alongside Barbara Cairncross

Barbara Cairncross

Barbara Cairncross is a former Southern Transvaal and South Africa cricketer. She played in South Africa's first three Test matches, scoring 65 runs in her six innings....

 as the South African team forced a draw after following on

Follow-on

Follow-on is a term used in the sport of cricket to describe a situation where the team that bats second is forced to take its second batting innings immediately after its first, because the team was not able to get close enough to the score achieved by the first team batting in the first innings...

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