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Joy Evelyn Partridge (28 March 1899 – 27 April 1947) was an English
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 str ...
er who played as a right-handed batter and right-arm
slow In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as ''v'') of an object is the magnitude (mathematics), magnitude of the change of its Position (vector), position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per ...
bowler. She appeared in four Test matches for
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between 1934 and 1935. She played in the first four women's Test matches in history, with her best performance coming in the second innings of the second Test against Australia, when her 6/96 helped England to an Ashes-winning victory by 8 wickets. She played domestic cricket for Buckinghamshire.


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Photo of Joy Partridge in action in New Zealand
{{DEFAULTSORT:Partridge, Joy 1899 births 1947 deaths People from Worcestershire (before 1974) English women cricketers England women Test cricketers Buckinghamshire women cricketers