Myrtle Maclagan
Myrtle Ethel Maclagan MBE was an English cricketer.Professional career
She played in the first women's Test match in 1934, and was one of the best-known women cricketers of her day, famous for making high scores against the Australians. She scored the first Test century in women's cricket on 4 January 1935, when she made 119 for England against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground. In that same historical women's test match, she notched another record for becoming the first woman cricketer to open the batting as well as to open the bowling in a same test match. The English men's team had lost the Ashes a few months earlier, and the Morning Post praised Maclagan's batting prowess with the quatrain:
After the 1934–35 tour to Australia and New Zealand, Maclagan also played against Australia in England in 1937. After the war, she returned to cricket, touring Australia and New Zealand again in 1948–49 and then appearing against Australia in England in 1951.Honours
In 1966 she was awarded the MBE for Army Services.
