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Australian women's cricket team in England in 1963
	England	Australia
Dates	20 May – 8 August 1963
Captains	Mary Duggan	Mary Allitt
Test series
Result	England won the 3-match series 1–0
Most runs	Mary Duggan (195)	Hazel Buck (169)
Most wickets	Mary Duggan (15)	Miriam Knee (16)

The Australian women's cricket team toured England between May and August 1963. The test series against England women's cricket team was played for the Women's Ashes, which Australia were defending. England won the series 1–0, winning the third test, therefore regaining the Ashes.

Squads

England	Australia
Mary Duggan (c) Edna Barker June Bragger Sandra Brown Shirley Driscoll Jacqueline Elledge Helene Hegarty Rachael Heyhoe Flint Dorothy Macfarlane Mary Pilling Cecilia Robinson Anne Sanders Eileen Vigor Ruth Westbrook (wk)	Mary Allitt (c) Liz Amos Shirley Banfield Hazel Buck Lynn Denholm Joyce Goldsmith Margaret Jude (wk) Miriam Knee Lorraine Kutcher Helen Lee Marjorie Marvell Janice Parker Muriel Picton Patricia Thomson Coralie Towers Norma Wilson (wk)

Tour Matches

1-day single innings matches

Australia  222/3d (70 overs)	v	Western Counties 90 (52.2 overs)
Mary Allitt 118* (–) Kay Green 2/52 (21 overs)		A Beaufoy 20 (–) Patricia Thomson 4/33 (18.2 overs)

• Western Counties Women won the toss and elected to field.

West Midlands 151/6d (67.1 overs)	v	Australia 152/0 (40.4 overs)
June Howard 79 (–) Muriel Picton 1/11 (9 overs)		Janice Parker 91* (102)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.

Australia  193/3d (62.4 overs)	v	East Midlands 60 (32.4 overs)
Shirley Banfield 55 (–) S Lloyd 1/13 (6 overs)		P Richardson 20 (–) Miriam Knee 3/15 (9 overs)

• East Midlands Women won the toss and elected to field.

Northern Counties 152/9d (57 overs)	v	Australia 153/6 (57.1 overs)
Margaret Rutherford 49 (–) Lorraine Kutcher 4/34 (19 overs)		Liz Amos 35 (–) Dorothy Macfarlane 5/62 (29 overs)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.

Yorkshire 122 (51.3 overs)	v	Australia 125/4 (45.3 overs)
Sue Hilliam 58 (–) Patricia Thomson 6/16 (10.3 overs)		Lynn Denholm 78* (–) June Stephenson 2/29 (11.3 overs)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.

East Anglia 96 (50.3 overs)	v	Australia 99/2 (31.1 overs)
Jean Lillico 17 (–) Miriam Knee 4/16 (7.3 overs)		Hazel Buck 34 (–) S Hughes 1/20 (6 overs)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.

Australia  175/3d (51 overs)	v	Kent 120/8 (43 overs)
Hazel Buck 102* (–) Jacqueline Elledge 2/29 (13 overs)		Mary Pilling 29 (–) Miriam Knee 2/22 (13 overs)

• Kent Women won the toss and elected to field.

Australia  177/2d (50.1 overs)	v	Sussex 127/7 (59 overs)
Hazel Buck 80* (–) W Dearsley 1/43 (15 overs)		W Dearsley 67* (–) Joyce Goldsmith 2/4 (7 overs)

• Sussex Women won the toss and elected to field.

Combined Services 120/5d (72 overs)	v	Australia 121/0 (33.1 overs)
Myrtle Maclagan 81* (–) Joyce Goldsmith 2/17 (15 overs)		Janice Parker 69* (–)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.

Surrey 129 (54 overs)	v	Australia 132/1 (33.3 overs)
Marjorie Adam 40 (–) Muriel Picton 5/25 (12 overs)		Lynn Denholm 66 (–)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.

Middlesex 180 (64.2 overs)	v	Australia 152/8 (54 overs)
Diana Brickell 58 (–) Miriam Knee 7/54 (18.2 overs)		Hazel Buck 75* (–) Mary Duggan 6/37 (21 overs)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.

Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire	v	Australia

• No toss.
• No play possible due to rain.

2-day matches

Australia	v	West of England
246/9d (76 overs) Hazel Buck 81 (–) Pam Trosh 2/31 (14 overs)		97 (52.1 overs) Budge Stuart-Smith 25 (–) Lorraine Kutcher 4/19 (12 overs)
		74 (41.1 overs) (f/o) Pam Trosh 33 (–) Muriel Picton 3/0 (1 over)

• West of England Women won the toss and elected to field.

Australia	v	Midlands
304/3d (96 overs) Liz Amos 106* (–) P Richardson 1/27 (9 overs)		176 (89 overs) Rachael Heyhoe Flint 75 (–) Miriam Knee 2/33 (20 overs)
		102/4 (52 overs) (f/o) Rachael Heyhoe Flint 47* (–) Liz Amos 2/14 (3 overs)

• Midlands Women won the toss and elected to field.

Australia	v	North of England
124 (94.4 overs) Norma Wilson 63 (–) Dorothy Macfarlane 5/46 (36.4 overs)		84 (48 overs) Sue Hilliam 23 (–) Marjorie Marvell 7/10 (18 overs)
133/2d (46 overs) Mary Allitt 71* (–) Polly Marshall 1/17 (5 overs)		75/4 (46 overs) J Harkness 36* (–) Patricia Thomson 2/11 (8 overs)

• North of England Women won the toss and elected to field.

East of England	v	Australia
18/0d (9.1 overs) Jacqueline Elledge 10* (–)		8/1d (3.1 overs) Lynn Denholm 8 (–) Val Hesmondhalgh 1/5 (1.1 overs)
145/5d (68.3 overs) Ruth Westbrook 61 (–) Muriel Picton 3/17 (8.3 overs)		97/4 (42 overs) Margaret Jude 46 (–) Mary Pilling 2/25 (12 overs)

• East of England Women won the toss and elected to field.

Australia	v	South of England
191 (91 overs) Helen Lee 44* (–) Helene Hegarty 4/74 (33 overs)		92/6d (51 overs) Sandra Brown 24 (–) Marjorie Marvell 3/20 (18 overs)
24/5d (23.3 overs) Lynn Denholm 10 (–) Joan Hawes 2/14 (8 overs)		119/6 (39 overs) Shirley Driscoll 68* (–) Lorraine Kutcher 2/27 (10 overs)

• South of England Women won the toss and elected to field.

Australia	v	England Women Australia Touring Team
277 (93 overs) Muriel Picton 97 (–) Mary Duggan 5/55 (25 overs)		189/5d (63 overs) Ruth Westbrook 74* (–) Patricia Thomson 2/35 (14 overs)
111/3d (32.5 overs) Janice Parker 52* (–) Polly Marshall 1/24 (32.5 overs)		63 (34 overs) Ruth Westbrook 16 (–) Lorraine Kutcher 4/24 (13 overs)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.

Test Series

1st Test

Australia	v	England
173 (84.4 overs) Hazel Buck 47 (–) Mary Duggan 4/39 (20 overs)		196 (105.4 overs) Sandra Brown 57* (–) Miriam Knee 4/49 (25.4 overs)
223/5d (124 overs) Janice Parker 50 (–) June Bragger 2/21 (11 overs)		91/3 (42 overs) Jacqueline Elledge 51* Janice Parker 1/10 (6 overs)

• Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• June Bragger, Sandra Brown, Jacqueline Elledge, Mary Pilling, Eileen Vigor (Eng), Hazel Buck, Lynn Denholm, Lorraine Kutcher and Janice Parker (Aus) all made their WTest debuts.

2nd Test

England	v	Australia
167 (86.4 overs) Mary Duggan 44 (–) Miriam Knee 5/35 (23 overs)		276 (132 overs) Miriam Knee 82 (–) Dorothy Macfarlane 3/46 (26 overs)
93/9 (92 overs) Rachael Heyhoe Flint 26 (–) Miriam Knee 3/22 (29 overs)

• England Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Helen Lee (Aus) made her WTest debut.

3rd Test

England	v	Australia
254/8d (89 overs) Mary Duggan 101* (–) Lorraine Kutcher 5/59 (24 overs)		205 (113.2 overs) Liz Amos 55 (–) Anne Sanders 4/29 (20.2 overs)
160/7d (58.3 overs) Rachael Heyhoe Flint 37* (–) Miriam Knee 3/53 (23 overs)		160 (89.2 overs) Lynn Denholm 29 (–) Mary Duggan 3/40 (27 overs)

• England Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Margaret Jude (Aus) made her WTest debut.
• Rachael Heyhoe Flint hit the first six in Women's Tests.

References

1. "Australia Women tour of England 1963". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
2. "Australia Women in England 1963". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
3. "RECORDS / WOMEN'S ASHES, 1963 - ENGLAND WOMEN / BATTING AND BOWLING AVERAGES". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
4. "RECORDS / WOMEN'S ASHES, 1963 / BATTING AND BOWLING AVERAGES". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 February 2021.

External links

• Australia Women tour of England 1963 from Cricinfo

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Matches	World Cup finals 1982 1988 1993 2009 2017 2022 T20 World Cup finals 2018
See also	Record by opponent

• The Women's Ashes
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