Norma Johnston, who was Australia’s oldest residing Test cricketer, has died aged 95.
Known on the time as Norma Whiteman, the fast-bowling allrounder performed seven Tests for Australia’s girls’s group between 1948 and 1951.
The twenty seventh participant to signify Australia in girls’s Test cricket, Johnston scored 151 runs at a median of 21.16 and took 22 wickets at 17.26.
“Always indebted to those before us for the foundations and showing us the joy in the game. A mountain of thanks to Norma,” girls’s Test nice Mel Jones tweeted.
Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley additionally labelled Johnston a pioneer of the game, as did a number of different gamers.
“She was passionate about cricket, her home town of Bathurst and the many women who would follow in her footsteps representing their state and country,” males’s captain Pat Cummins mentioned.
“Her contribution to Australian cricket and the friendships she made with so many within the game will live on forever.”
