Episode 2: The wheels of change. The fluctuating fortunes of women's cricket as a new generation of players emerge from the challenges of World War I and the Depression.

In this episode of The Maiden Summer we see how the momentum of the early years of women's cricket is lost as the power of international events relegates women's sport to a secondary concern. But as Australia recovers from the War years, a new era arrives, not just on the cricket field, but in newspapers, where the first of a generation of women sports journalists take on the role of reporting and promoting women's cricket.

ABOUT THE MAIDEN SUMMER:
Australian women's cricket has been a feature of our summers for almost 150 years. And today's World Champion Australian team stands proudly on the shoulders of the bold and daring women who have gone before them. Featuring the voices of some of the women who were there and archival audio from the formative periods in Australian and International women's' cricket history, this podcast tells the story of women's fight to play Australia's national sporting pastime.

Written and Narrated by Nick Richardson, visit nickrichardsonwriter.com.au
Production by Chris Plumridge at Jet Streamer, visit jetstreamer.com.au
Featuring the voices of Sue Westwood, Mitch Cleary and Rosalie Flynn

RESOURCES:
Audio:
Footage supplied by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s Film Australia Collection.
Oral History Collection, the National Library of Australia
Oral history Holdings, the National Museum of Australia
Thanks to Cinesound Movietone Productions

Books:
Jacquie Triffitt, On The Front Foot – The Rise of Tasmanian Women’s Cricket (Forty South Publishing, Hobart, 2021).

https://shop.fortysouth.com.au/products/on-the-front-foot-the-rise-of-tasmanian-womens-cricket-by-jacqui-triffitt-hb

Rafaelle Nicholson, Ladies and Lords: a History of Women’s Cricket in Britain (Peter Lang, Oxford, 2019)

Richard Cashman and Amanda Weaver, Wicket Women – Cricket & Women in Australia (UNSW Press, Kensington, 1991)