Full name Margaret Jean Jennings Role Cricket Player Name Margaret Jennings | National side Australia Batting style Right-hand batsman | |
Test debut (cap 72) 5 February 1972 v New Zealand women Last Test 15 January 1977 v India women ODI debut (cap 4) 23 June 1973 v Young England women's | ||
Margaret Jean Jennings (born 1949) captained the Australia national women's cricket team in one Test match. A right-handed batswoman and wicket-keeper, she played 8 Tests in all, scoring 341 runs with a best of 104, her only century. She was born on 1 June 1949 in Essendon, Victoria and made her Test debut against New Zealand in 1972, her last match came against India in 1977.
Jennings was the first woman cricketer to have kept wicket and to have open the batting as captain in the history of WODI
Jennings was a selector for the Australian women's team for a number of years. She stepped down from the position in February 2013.
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