The lady DonSharp for her age:
Wilson is a young 86
By Nagraj Gollapudi
SYDNEY (Cricinfo), January 9, 2008:
Answer this. Who's the first to achieve the double of a century and ten wickets in a Test match?
Was it Keith Miller? Garry Sobers? Mike Procter, maybe? Or was it one of Imran, Kapil, Hadlee or Botham?
If those were your choices, you'd be wrong every time. The cricketer who got there first was a woman: Betty Wilson.
Back in the 1940s and 50s when the names of Don Bradman, Bill O'Reilly, Miller and Lindwall featured prominently in the sports pages of Australian newspapers, Wilson was a household name, too. So much so that she came to be known as the "female Bradman".
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Nagraj Gollapudi is an assistant editor at Cricinfo
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