Rob Harvey

Clearing Boundaries: Book Review

December 13, 2020June 15, 2021 Rob Harvey 1390 Views 0 Comments

Clearing Boundaries: the Rise of Australian Women’s Cricket is a new coffee table style book published by the Bradman Museum.

November 1, 2020December 8, 2021 Rob Harvey 4077 Views 0 Comments 1960s

Born on November 1st 1925, in Deniliquin, New South Wales, former Australian Test cricket captain, Mary Allitt.

October 31, 2020December 8, 2021 Rob Harvey 2330 Views 0 Comments 1960s

Born on October 31st 1930, in Singleton, New South Wales, former Australian Test cricket captain, Muriel “Pixie” Picton turns 90 in 2020

One of the first things the settlers of Christchurch produced was a cricket oval in 1851. That oval is the picturesque Hagley Oval.

The recent T20 between Austria and Germany allowed us to view some players we don’t normally see. One of those, Germany’s wicket keeper.

Born on 2nd April in Ambala, United Provinces, India in 1911, former England allrounder and captain, Myrtle Maclagan.

August 18, 2020February 15, 2026 Rob Harvey 5372 Views 0 Comments 1970s

In 2016 I interviewed Wendy Blunsden as part of my quest to write about the Australian women Test cricket captains. Wendy passed away in August 2020.

August 18, 2020December 31, 2021 Rob Harvey 3302 Views 0 Comments 1930s

Helen Elizabeth “Betty” Archdale was the very first captain of the England women’s Test cricket team. Born on 21st August

They called her the Smiling Assassin. In an era of very good spin bowlers this one was the top of the list.

June 26, 2020December 10, 2020 Rob Harvey 3035 Views 0 Comments

Mollie Dive couldn’t help herself. She loved cricket, hockey, netball, squash, tennis, golf – she just loved sports. Mollie was an Ashes pioneer.