The founding mother of women's cricket in Australia was the young Tasmanian, Lily Poulett-Harris, who captained the Oyster Cove team in the league she created in 1894.
 Lily's obituary, from her death a few years later in 1897, states that her team was almost certainly the first to be formed in the colonies .

During the 1890s, cricket and rowing two of the most popular competitive sports for women in Australia.
Another of the first all women's sport clubs founded in Australia was the Rockhampton Ladies' Club.
 They were fielding a women's cricket team in the mid-1890s.
 The team wore dresses with long skirts and long sleeves, sashes attached to their uniform, tight belts and straw boater hats.
The founding mother of women's cricket in Australia was the young Tasmanian, Lily Poulett-Harris, who captained the Oyster Cove team in the league she created in 1894.  Lily's obituary, from her death a few years later in 1897, states that her team was almost certainly the first to be formed in the colonies .
During the 1890s, cricket and rowing two of the most popular competitive sports for women in Australia. Another of the first all women's sport clubs founded in Australia was the Rockhampton Ladies' Club.  They were fielding a women's cricket team in the mid-1890s.  The team wore dresses with long skirts and long sleeves, sashes attached to their uniform, tight belts and straw boater hats.
Women's cricket in Australia