Ruth Symons
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Ruth Evelyn Martin (Template:Nee; 3 October 1913 – 11 September 2004) was a New Zealand cricketer who played as a right-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler. She played one Test match for New Zealand, their first, in 1935. She played domestic cricket for Canterbury.[1]
Symons captained Canterbury, and she was selected to captain New Zealand in their first women's Test match, against England in Christchurch in February 1935, which England won.[2][3][4] In Canterbury's victory over Otago in March 1937 she took 6 for 6 and 3 for 23.[5]
She married Lester Martin at St Mark's Church, near her home in Opawa, Christchurch, in April 1935.[6] She died in Christchurch in 2004.[3]
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