peternorth
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- May 6, 2005
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Just a shame about the quality, if taken 50-odd years later it might have looked more like this glorious photo of a similar genre:Test player Charlie Macartney showing first Australian women's Test captain a batting grip in 1934 as part of a charity match where he captained a men's side against the Kuring-gai women's club to raise funds for the first women's Test series.
Macartney actually did quite a bit to support the women's game which is pretty wholesome! Bowled a ball at the opening of the first women's cricket school to 'inaugurate' the nets at an event as well.
You'd think even with a "poor campaign", having an average of 82 would buy you a bit of time before being axed!In the back is Lyn Larsen (Aus captain at the time) and next to her is Denise Annetts nigh on swooning like a school girl. Despite averaging 82 in a 10-Test career, Annetts would achieve more fame/infamy upon her axing from the national team--a decision she claimed was punishment for not being a lesbian! Truth is she was dropped because of a poor World Cup campaign in '93, thus her accusation did not need to be treated with dignity (and wasn't afforded any by Belinda Clark, for example, who was quoted as saying "I'd actually like to slap her around a bit").
Women's Tests are exceptionally rare though, Perry's played for like ten years and only has eight. ODI is the 'main' format for women's international cricket which selection is built on.You'd think even with a "poor campaign", having an average of 82 would buy you a bit of time before being axed!
It does at least suggest that there was something other than pure numbers/form to result in her being pushed out....