Joyce Bonwick

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

Brewer (born 22 March 1915 in

Cordalba Cordalba is a rural town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Cordalba had a population of 445 people. The town was founded in 1896 and played an important role in the sugar workers strike of 1911.John Oxley Libr ...

, Queensland - died 26 June 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland) was an Australian

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

player. She played two

test matches Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to: * Test cricket * Test match (indoor cricket) * Test match (rugby union) * Test match (rugby league) * Test match (association football) ...

for the

Australia national women's cricket team The Australian women's national cricket team (formerly also known as the Southern Stars) represent Australia in international women's cricket. Currently captained by Meg Lanning and coached by Shelley Nitschke, they are the top team in all worl ...

. Brewer was the twelfth woman to play Test cricket for Australia. Brewer was awarded the Australian Sports Medal on 30 November 2000 for her contributions to sports administration.

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