A Herefordshire village credited as the birthplace of women’s cricket has begun celebrating 100 years since the first matches that led to the creation of the Women’s Cricket Association.<\/p>\n
In the summer of 1926, a group of friends gathered to play cricket in Colwall. The games proved so popular that the players decided a national association should be formed.<\/p>\n
On 4 October that year, 19 people met in London, backed by 20 others, to pass a motion “that a central association for women’s cricket be formed”.<\/p>\n
As the idea originated in Colwall, the village has hosted an annual cricket week ever since.<\/p>\n
The celebration, which has a “swinging 1920s theme”, includes live music, fancy dress, community stalls and of course, plenty of cricket.<\/p>\n
Lucy Merredy, a player at Colwall Cricket Club, said: “Every year for a week in August we celebrate here with women turning up, camping or staying nearby.<\/p>\n
“There’s lots of comradery, games, and lots and lots of cricket, but also lots of other social events too.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Herefordshire village credited as the birthplace of women’s cricket has begun celebrating 100 years since the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-846829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}