Verna Reed Coutts (13 July 1930 – 31 January 2010) was a New Zealand
cricket
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er who played as a right-handed
batter
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. Making her Test debut against England, she appeared in six
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* Test cricket
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for
New Zealand
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between 1954 and 1957. She played domestic cricket for
Wellington
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and
Canterbury
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1930 births
2010 deaths
People from Inglewood, New Zealand
Cricketers from Taranaki
New Zealand women cricketers
New Zealand women Test cricketers
Wellington Blaze cricketers
Canterbury Magicians cricketers
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