When cricket became a sport for both men and women

Create the first women's cricket match takes
The first recorded women found together on the Gosden cricket match near the town of Guildford in Surrey, on this day in the year 1745 in the reading mercury reported.
The paper described it as "the biggest cricket match,... all in white dressed played in this part of England between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maidens of Hambledon.

"Bramley maids had blue ribbons and the Hambledon maids red ribbons on their heads." The Bramley girls got 119 notches and the Hambledon girls 127. The girls rolled, batted, ran and drip tray could do as well as most men. "High prices - somewhat begrudgingly."

Women's cricket was particularly popular in Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire. Lot of trouble was not unknown, partly due to sporting rivalry and partly because of the large bets on games. A form of competition against each other married colleagues and prices ranging from ladylike Lace Gloves ladette-style barrel ALE single women!

Early cricket balls saw rolled forearm, and some claim that it actually was a woman, the today's Roundarm bowling action when caught in the early 1800s, always trying to avoid Christina Willes, introduced in her skirt. However Roundarm developed bowling Walker by Tom a little earlier in the 1790s.