Mary Spry
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Florence Mary Spry was an international cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er, who played three Test matches for the England women's cricket team against Australia in 1951. A batsman
Batting (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...

, she scored 71 runs in the Tests at an average of 14.20. Her highest score, of 35, came in her last match at The Oval, a match England won by 137 runs. She played country cricket for Middlesex and also represented South Women.
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