Netta Rheinberg

Rheinberg's single Test match came on England's tour of Australia in 1948/49. She was the team's manager, and had to play in the match because of injuries to other players.^[4] She made a "pair", becoming the first woman to do so on Test debut.^[5][6]

She was the manager of the 1957-58 tour of Australia and New Zealand, and commented that each woman on the team had to raise £400 for their costs.^[3] "Some sawed and sold logs, others packed chocolates and sold jam jars."^[3]

Rheinberg was most notable 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."^[7]

She 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, Rheinberg wrote a history of the women's game, Fair Play - the story of women's cricket, Angus & Robertson, 1976.^[4][3]

In 1999 she was one of the first ten women to be awarded honorary membership of MCC.^[8]

• Netta Rheinberg at ESPNcricinfo

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