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website, to access newspaper articles from the time. In the 1990's I helped research the history of my long-time cricket club, Narara-Wyoming. This involved scrolling through micro-film copies of the newspapers, so a lot of time was spent looking for articles. The search function with Trove is
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Identified, where possible, the given names of players that represented country and regional teams against the visitors to
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online newspaper articles, where available. Coverage of women's international matches prior to the mid 2010's was inconsistent
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