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Netta Rheinberg
English cricketer, administrator, and journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Netta Rheinberg MBE (24 October 1911 – 18 June 2006) was an English cricketer, journalist and administrator. She appeared in one Test match for England in 1949, against Australia. She played domestic cricket for Middlesex.[1][2]
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Early life and education
Rheinberg was born in Brondesbury in London.[3] Her father was a businessman and inventor, Julius Rheinberg.[3] Netta attended South Hampstead High School, studied languages abroad, and then went to secretarial college.[3]
Career
Rheinberg started her career as temporary secretary at Stowe School, moved to a hearing aid company, and from there to her parents' textile business.[3]
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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]
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