Netta Rheinberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Netta Rheinberg

cricketer

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1911

Place of Birth: Willesden, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 18-Jun-2006

Profession: cricket umpire, cricketer

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Netta Rheinberg

  • Netta Rheinberg MBE (24 October 1911 – 18 June 2006) played for the English women's cricket team in a single Test, but was a notable figure in the women's game as an administrator and journalist.
  • Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, the former England captain, said of her work as an administrator, "Netta was an action girl.
  • We had very few people then, and she galvanised activity, partly just by having a great personality and a sense of humour." "For a north London Jew, playing cricket for England and being one of the game’s most important administrators is about as well-trodden a career path as prime minister or bacon-buttie salesman," wrote Rob Steen shortly after her death aged 94 in 2006.
  • "That Rheinberg happened to be a woman made her accomplishments all the more admirable."She played her cricket mostly for Gunnersbury and Middlesex, as a batsman and slip fielder.
  • Her one Test came on England's tour of Australia in 1948-9.
  • She was the team's manager, and had to play in the match because of injuries to other players.
  • She made a "pair".Therefore she became the first woman cricketer to register a pair on women's test debutShe was secretary of the Women's Cricket Association in 1945 and from 1948 to 1958.
  • She was also membership secretary and vice-chairman of the Cricket Society. She edited the magazine Women's Cricket, reported on women's cricket for Wisden for more than thirty years, and wrote a regular column for The Cricketer.
  • With Heyhoe-Flint as co-author, she wrote a history of the women's game.In 1999 she was one of the first ten women to be awarded honorary membership of MCC.

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